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May 20.

1992 - North Shore News

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The working waterfront...

PORT DAY a celebration of
the Lower) Mainland’s working
waterfront, an important part of
the North Shore's histary and. its
future.

The major industries located
along the North Vancouver water-
front are sted below:

CHEMICAL PLANTS
Atbright & Wilson America
@® employs about 48 permanent

ff and five temporary staff;

® produces un average of 80.000
tonnes of sodium chlorate annual-
Iy; the product is shipped to pulp
mills and used in the production
of the diosin-free pulp bleaching
avent. chlorine dioxide.
CanadianOay Chemicals Utd.
@ employs about 175 people:
@ imports bulk se toand ex
ports chloring, caustic soda and
muriatig acid to pulp and paper
mills and) te petrochemical  in-
dustries in western Canada:
® produces 425 tonnes of chio-
rine und 470 tonnes of  catistic
soda dail
@ has a berth 952 metres long
und it water) depth of 10.66
metres,
Dow Chemical of Canada foe.:
@ owned by Dow Chemical
Canada Ltd
@® handies

caustic soda, ethylene
dichloride and ethylene glycol;

@ employs five Dow employees
and up to 20° specially-trained

longshoremen;
© berth at the Lynnaterm facility:
© has the capacily ta store up to
40,000 tonnes of caustic soda
solution, 30,000 tonnes of
ethylene dichloride and 17,000
tonnes of ethylene gylcot.
BUL

Fibreeo Export In
@ owned by 26° shareh
sawmill companies in the B.
terior, from Fort Nelson to
brook,
@ the largest: volume wocdchip
terminals in the world;
© employs 10 staff and up te 30
fongshoremen;
@ ships an average of 1.5 million
Tennes annually
® pays $27 millien in freight: to
three railroad companies,

sptone Bulk Terminal (Canada)
Lad.;
@ owned by Neptune Bulk Ter-
minals (Canada) Lids;
@® empioys about 260 workers:
@ owned by oa consartium of
shippers from: western) Canada
who produce and ship such bulk
Products as coal, potash,
chosphate rock, alfalfa and

oil for export to world

markets;
® has three berths.

neouver Wharves Lid.:
@ owned by Vancover Wharves
Lid.; .
@ employs 164 staff, foremen and

Jongshoremen in their regular
work force, and up to 150 addi-
tional dispatched longshoremen;
@ the largest multi-product deep
sea loading facility on Canada’s
West COUSES
@ currently handles an annual
volume of over six million tonnes;
@ handles a wide range of pro-
ducts, including copper, lead,
zinc, Tiquids, methanol, pulp and
paper, sulphur, potash, phosphate
rock, and fertilizers;
® has five berths, sits on 40 hec-
tares and has a storage capacity of
1.25 milion tonnes:
@ worth of products that move
through othe terminal annually
total an estimated $3.5 billion,
FOREST PRODU

T :
Lsnnterm:
@ owned and opertated by the
Vancouver Port Carp.:
® employs about 25 office staff
and up to 280 longshoremen;
® handles forest products and is
also invelved with the export of
steel, cantainers and general
cargo;
@ sis on $2 acres;
@ has berthine facitites of 838
metres long and a water depth of
15 metres.
Seaboard faternational Terminal:
@ owned by Seaboard {nterna-
tional Terminal (a division of the
Seaboard Shipping Co. Ltd).