Per aeS Pee RA “ ang Pos Dor ee ae a see et Ne (i ds ene: ! are a ES ° reer th Ee) a ; 4 eee fad te, i ste aa 4. Suk lety eee rh i seis SD DAGUDN We Mitel eT PC i real + nab CLT I ey AI Caged as PUP LRR AT es i Ont DnGIS 7 Shipping out to the world From page 22 Vancouver waterfront next to Dow Chemicals in 1977 and has since gone through a series of ex- pansions, While the lumber market 1s depressed right now, Lynnterm continues to experience growth in its industry. A large part is due to a Strong niirket in woodputp. The terminal's current plans in- clude expanding its existing berth face towards the west and the construction of a new warehouse to hold forest products, The warehouse, which will be the third such warehouse on the Lynnterm site, will be 215,000 square fect (19,974 sq.m) in area, bringing the total area of all ciree forest product warehouses to 550,000 square feet (51,095 sq. m). Once completed, the berth will comprise 250 feet (76 m). Seaboard Shipping Co, Ltd. While the Seaboard Shipping Co, Ltd. will handle a variety of products, its main cargo is lumber and plywood. In 1992, Seaboard shipped the Jumber equivalent of 900 million FBM (foot board meassure) or 1.4 million tonnes to world markets. The Seaboard terminal sits on 55 acres (22.5 hectares) and has been located in North Vancouver since 1972, It ranks as one of the largest through-put forest product terminals in the world, The company will employ up to 200 unionized Jongshoremen daily and most of its lumber products, about 78%, arrive in North Van- couver by truck, Other lumber products are delivered by barge (12%) and rail (10%). Neptune Bulk Terminals (Canada) Ltd. Neptune wi first built on its present North Vancouver site in 1968. The terminal is owned by a consortium oof coal, potash, aafalfa pellet, canola oil and phosphate rock shippers and receivers, In 1970, Neptune becume che first multi-purpose bulk handling system in the Port of Vancouver with the introduction of coal unit trains, In 1992, Neptune exported about $.8 million tonnes of coal to foreign markets, mostly in the Pacific Rim. Coal is the largest product Neptune handles, Second on its fist is potash, followed by phosphate rock, agri- cultural products and bulk liquids. Up to 100 railears: per train unload in a fully enclosed rotary dumper, a process that takes up to four hours. The coal can then be shipped directly 10 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 [87-metre (614-foot) by 61-metre (200-foot) potash storage shed. Pioneer Grain Terminal Ltd. The Pioneer Grain Terminal property on Low Level Road in North Vancouver City is the oldest industrial site on the North Shore. The history of the site goes back to the 1863 opening of a sawmill. Pioneer, which is owned by the Manitoba-based James Richard- son and Sons Ltd., bought the terminal in 1972, although the terininal has been in its present lovation since 1927, Voday, the terminal is consid- ered to be one of North America's most modern and effigient rotin-handting facilities. It has a digensed storage capaci ty of FO8,000 tonnes and can unload and clean 1800 railears a day and has a vessel loading rate of 2,260 tonnes per hour, Pioneer also its an annual handling capacity of over 2.4 imil- lion tonnes, Saskatchewan Wheat Poo! This North Vancouver terminal ships 60% wheat, barley and 15% canola seed. Other products handled by Saskatchewan include durum and grain by-products, Its facility includes two inshore berths and ane outshore berth grain 25% See A wide pare 25 OPERATIONS LIMITED 5 Fax: (604) 985-0955 467 Mountain Highway, North Vancouver, B.C. V7J 2L3 Tel: (6 > Teta ts gabe rigs 04) 985-085