Potash goes south for loss of cargo to US port | | Neptune expansion delays blamed BECAUSE OF delays in expansion of a North Van- couver bulk-loading terminal and an aggressive U.S. sales job, Canadian potash has begun moving through a port in the United States. According to Jack McMunn, Director of Supply and Distribution for Canpotex Ltd. in Saskatoon, a trial shipment of 12,000 tons of potash is now en route from Saskatchewan to the Port of Longview, Washington, near Portland on the Columbia River. The cargo, destined for Japan, is scheduled to load to the freighter Great River about May 15 to 17. McMunn said the shipment through the US is un experi- ment. If it is successful, he said, “We will try it on and off through the rest of the year.”’ But McMunn declined to say how much potash would move through Longview because ‘‘we have to see how it works out. tis atest at the moment.’” While the amount of potash moving through the United States will be minor compared with the four million tons per year that move through North Vancouver, it translates directly into lost jobs and revenue. The first shipment alone means the joss of a day’s work for more than 25 longshoremen and a loss of more than $50,000 in revenue to North Vancouver terminals and other marine industries. Port of Vancouver spokesman Barbara Duggan al- tributes the loss to delays in approving plans to expand potash storage capacity at North Vancouver’s Neptune Bulk Terminals. Neptune's $24-million potash shed project was held up for approximately two years because of loca! opposition to the expansion. By Fred McCague Contributing Writer In early March, the port fi- nally approved Neptune’s ex- pansion plans over the objec- tions of North Vancouver City Council, but work on the shed will take 18 months to com- plete. public hearings in January, Rick Swenson, Saskatchewan Minister of Energy and Mines, said ‘We will have to do the best we can to find ports to ship our pot- ash.”’ According to McMunn, ‘‘We have seen congestion (in Van- couver) increase over the last two years. {t has been very heavy and very difficult.*" With ships costing more than $7,060 per day, congestion is a serious and expensive problem. Duggan said *‘If we are not prepared to be very creative and very competitive, the price tag is Canadian jobs first and the Canadian economy se- cond.”’ Vancouver Wharves _presi- dent Harry Woods said, ‘‘It is a very busy spell over the next six weeks. There is a shortage of storage space in North Van- couver and the diversion is more because of storage. It is indicative of what we were afraid would happen.”’ The Longview terminal is Operated by International Raw Materials of Philadelphia. Tom Kramer of International Raw Materials said they were pleased with the first shipment and confirmed they had been actively soliciting the business since the mid ’80s. The working waterfront log From page 3 dock 220 metres long, 45.8 metres wide and has a lifting capacity of 36,000 tonnes. Vancouver Shipyards Co. Ltd.: © owned by Seaspan International Lid.; © employs around 550 people (for taxes paid, see Seaspan); ¢ designs, builds and repairs vessels ranging from pleasure crafts to ferries to large ocean- going carriers; * Jocated on 40 acres of water- front property; e equipped with a Syncrolifs marine elevator that handles vessels up to 90 metres in length, 21.34 metres in breadth and weighing up to 1,200 tonnes. Allied Shipbuilders Lud: © currently working on a_ 56- million subcontract to help build the $120-million superferry for the B.C. Ferry Corp. *employment figures with contracts; employs 11s; * contributed $60,000 in municipal taxes for 1990; * was the first shipyard to be awarded a sub-contract for the superferry. Seaspan International Ltd.; e the largest tug and barge com- pany in Canada; * employs around 650 or approx- imately 1,200 including those at its subsidiary Vancouver Shipyards Co, Ltd; ® paid $282,000 in municipal taxes for 1990 (including Vancouver Shipyards); ®has a fleet of 45 tugs, two train-ships and 240 special-pur- pose barges, including the largest fluctuate about self-loading, self-dumping barge in the world; * figures prominently in Van- couver port activities; its tugs and barges are used to move materials, goods and equipment for some of B.C.’s largest industries; ein addition to the two marine transportation services it provides to the forest, mining, chemical and construction industries, Seaspan plays a major role in the movement of vessels within the port system; *ocean-going barges operate along the North Amercian west coast between ports in B.C., Alaska, Washington State, Oregon, California and Mexico. RAILWAYS: BC Rail: * Crown corporation; *employs approximately 808 people and sits on 155 acres of land in North Vancouver; ® does not pay municipal taxes or grant in lieu: *the main railroad servicing North Shore port facilities. CN Rail: * provides support for the North Shore’s industrial activities; *CN directly services Neptune Bulk Terminals, the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, Pioneer Grain, Lyn- nterm and Dow Chemicals; *employs about 90 in its North Vancouver operation: *taxed on a utility assessment basis, figure not available. OTHER FACILITIES: C.H. Cates & Sous Ltd. * employs 97 people; * contributed $87,000 in municipal taxes for 1990; * operates 15 tugs. Sunday, May 12, 1991 - North Shore News - 5 MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS AGENDAS North Vancouver City Council, Monday, May $3 at 7:30 p.m.: lease, RCMP forensic ID sec- tion/Budget/Tax = rates/Capital Expenditure. 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