VANCOUVER JS the larg- est port in Canada. Its prime location on the West Coast has made it attractive for trading partners on the Pacific Rim. Stories by Surj Rattan News Reporter The port does business with over 90 countries. It is the largest deepsea port in Canada and one of the largest in North America in terms of tonnage handled. The port’s North Shore termi- nals have played, and continue to play, a major role in Vancouver’s international trading success. The North Shore’s terminals in- clude shipyards, forest product terminals, railway operations, chemical plants, bulk loading fa- cilities, grain elevators and towing companies. These industries also help sup- port the North Shore economy by contributing millions of dollars each year to the local municipalities’ tax revenues. . Many of these industries have been based on the North Shore industrial waterfront for years, and in one case, since before the turn of the century. While most North Shore resi- dents know these industrial opera- tors are here, they know little about their operations. The profiles, on the few pages that follow, are designed to pro- vide some insight on who these waterfront industrial operators are and what it is that they do. NEWS photo Neil Lucenta ALFALFA PELLETS are loaded onto a freighter bound for Korea at the Neptune Bulk Terminals (Canada) facility in North Vancouver. tn 1992, Neptune exported about 8.8 million tonnes of coal to foreign markets, mostly around the Pacific Rim. ‘Two bulk loading terminals move millions of tons of cargo @ Neptune Bulk Terminals (Canada) Ltd.: Neptune was first built on its present North Van- couver site in 1968. The terminal is owned by a consortium of coal, potash, alfalfa pellet, canola oil and phosphate rock shippers and receivers. In 1970, Neptune became the with the introduction of coal unit trains. In 1992, Neptune exported about 8.8 million tonnes of coal to foreign markets, mostly in the Pacific Rim. Coal makes up the largest proportion of Nep- tune’s throughput. Second on its list is potash, followed by phosphate rock, agri- first multi-purpose bulk handling system in the Port of Vancouver Terminal exgan front jobs Western Stevedoring and the Vancouver Port Corporation (V.P.C.) have launched a new era of cargo- handling in the Port of Vancouver with the official opening of a new 226,000 sq. ft. (21,000 sq. m) woodpulp storage and transit warehouse at North Vancouver's Lyanterm deep sea "terminal. With the $7.5 million investment in the warehouse and related equipment by the Port and Westem, over 2 million tonnes of forest products can be han- dled at Lynnterm annually. The custom-built warehouse is designed to handle the growirg wood: pulp exports from B.C. mills and newly-opened pulp mills in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Western Stevedoring has recently secured long-term con: tracts with MC Forest Products for the Alberta Pacific Pulp Mill and Mitfar Western Pulo’s Whitecourt (AB) and Meadow Lake (SK) mills. Contracts are also in place with Daishowa Marubeni International's Peace River Pulp Mill and the Celgar Pulp Company. These contracts will mean a Up to i the Herta Shere. projected 15 to 20 percent increase in fong-term employment at Lynnterm. Construction of the warehouse was completed an time and within budget using the North Vancouver- based JOG Construction Company and Westmar Engineering Company. V.P.C. and Western Stevedoring are also constructing a $6 million berth extension measuring 250 H. (76 m) at Lynnterm to increase vessel and cargo handling capabilites. Once completed in March 1994, Lyanterm will have 3,000 feet (915 m) of continuous berth space with over 50 feet of draft, allow- ing for the simultaneous servicing of four full-sized forestry carriers. The berth extension will incorpo- fate a new public viewing platform at the south end of the Harbour View Park for better access and viewing of wateriront activities. The 82 acre (33 hectare} Lynnterm site now has a total of 550,000 so. ft. (51,100 sq. m) of warehouse space and is considered to be an ideal consolidation centre for forestry carriers shipping Canadian products around the world. cultural products and bulk liquids. 100 railcars per train unload in a fully enclosed rotary dumper, a process that takes up to four hours. The coal can then be shipped directly to waiting vessels or stacked in 16-metre-high (52 foot) piles on both sides of a 400-metre (1,312-foot) conveyor belt. Neptune recently finished build- ing a new 187-metre (6!4-foot) by 6i-metre (200-foot) potash storage shed. @ Vancouver Wharves Lid.: Vancouver Wharves was recently purchased by BC Rail and first Started operations in North Van- couver in the late 1950s. It has since developed into a major multi-purpose deep-sea Joading facility and = currently handles more than seven million tonnes a year. The products handled by Van- couver Wharves inwlude minerals, concentrates, methanol, pulp and paper, lumber, potash, sulphur and phosphate rock. The facility loads over five ber- ths on a site totalling 40 hectares. Vancouver Wharves’ biggest project came in 1989 with the construction of the Red Dog Mine terminal facility which receives concentrates from the Cominco- owned Red Dog mine in northern Alaska. , Congratulations Lynnterm! 1407 Bewicke Avenue North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 3C7 Tel. (604) 986-4494 Wesimar : Consultants Inc. oe CONSTRUCTION Maritime, Structural, & Civil Engineers #400 - 233 West Ist Street, North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 183 DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION - PRE ENGINEERED STEEL (604) 985-6488