North Shore News Special Supplement

Tug companies guide vessels into safe harbor

@C.H. Cates and Sons Ltd.:
This family-owned business is one
of the oldest industrial operators
not only on the North Shore
waterfront but in the entire Port
of Vancouver.

The company specializes in ber-
thing everything from freighters to
cruise ships in the Port of Van-
couver, ;

It was was founded in 1889 by
Capt. Charles Henry Cates. More
than a century later, it is still bas-
ed in the City of North Vancouver
at the foot of Lonsdale Avenue
next to what is now the Lonsdale
Quay Market.

The company was bought by
Missoula, Montana businessman

Dennis Washington on Oct. 1,
1992, Today, the local tugboat
firm operates a fleet of 15 tugs.

The company also owns @ Se-
cond firm, Port Moody-based
Seaforth Towing and Salvage
Ltd., which operates three tugs.

Seaforth berths vessels east of
the Second Narrows: Bridge, pro-
vides a general towing service and
operates a freighting service up
Indian Arm.

Last year it made most of its
revenue from its extensive work
with pollution-control booms.

Cates employs a total of 115
people.

Cates’ equipment includes a
500-ton-capacity Syncrolift that is

used to repair tugs on dry land.
The lift has decreased vessel
down-time by an average of 35%
and helped increase the expected
working life of each tug by 10%.
@ Seaspan International Ltd.:
Seaspan is the largest tug and
barge company in Canada and
was established in 1898 as the
Vancouver Tug Boat Co.

In the 1970s, after having ac-
quired Vancouver Shipyards Co.
Lid., Seaspan merged with Island
Tug and Barge to form Seaspan.

Seaspan moved to its present
North Vancouver site in 1968,
Seaspan and Vancouver Shipyards
have a combined workforce of
about !,000 people.

The company has a fleet of 45

tugs, two trainships and 240

special-purpose barges.

The company routinely trans-
ports such cargos as logs, lumber,
woodchips, sawdust, hog fuel,
pulp and paper chemicals, pet-
roleum products, salt, limerock,
coal railcars, highway equipment
and construction equipment.

The ship berthing specialists in the Port of

Vancouver since 1886.

o 15 “State of the Art” tugs, 700-2400 HP, specially
designed and built for effective, safe and efficient
ship berthing and escorting 24 hours a day, every
day of the year.

o Personnel that are experts in ship berthing and their
respective trades and crafts.

Tel: Dispatch: 988-1144 Admin. Office: 988-2161
Fax: 988-6060 .
VHF Channel 17

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A division of C.H. Cates & Sons Ltd. servicing
Eastern Vancouver Harbour.

5 Tugs, 165-900 HP - I barge.

o Ship berthing - general towing

© Manufacturing, sales and servicing of low cost,
effective pollution booms.
Contract operators to Burrard Clean Operations Ltd.
for spill containment and recovery. ;

o Harbour and Indian Arm Freight Service.

Tel: 986-6465 Fax: 988-6060
VHF Channels 6 and 17

115 Carrie Cates Court, North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 3J4

NEWS photo Miko Wakofleld
C.H. CATES and Sons is one cf the oldest industrial operations
on the North Shore, kaving set up business in its present loca-.
tion at the tcot of Lonsdale Avenue in 1889. The company
specializes in berthing everything from freighters to cruise ships
in the Port of Vancouver.

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And it all starts here.

SEABOARD

INTERNATIONAL TERMINAL

For nearly two decades, the North
Shore has been home to one of the
largest privately operated forest-
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Seaboard International Terminal
spreads over 55 acres on the vibrant
North Vancouver waterfront.

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Celebrating &
15 Years of
Serving the Bune
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265 West Esplanade, North Vancouver, British Columbia Canada V7M 1A5
Telephone (604) 985-0622 Facsimile (604) 985-2862

A DIVISION OF SEABOARD SHIPPING COMPANY LIMITED
95 Brooksbank Avenue, North Vancouver, 8.C. V7J 2B9
Telephone: (604) 983-4700

Fax: (604) 983-4714

Ships load at our terminal’s three
deep-water berths and deliver their
cargo to China, Japan and Australia,