It’s extremely unusual for an oil tanker to take Active Pass instead of the neighbouring Boundary Pass, favoured by almost all other commercial routes for its wider, calmer waters. Swanson says he’s never seen an oil tanker take the pass before.
“When you have a tanker travelling through these waters. there is always tremendous danger with dangerous goods being spilt in any amount. It would be a disaster for that to happen,” Swanson says. The arrows point to Active Pass, running between Galiano and Mayne Island. Boundary Pass is the much larger waterway that follows the marine border between the US and Canada.
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The MV Federal Hudson and Captain Sumit Kumar won the race to be the first ship to Port, bringing thousands of metric tonnes of sugar from Maceio, Brazil to Redpath Sugar.
TORONTO, April 7, 2021 /CNW/ - In a sure sign that spring is here, earlier this morning, PortsToronto crowned Captain Sumit Kumar of the MV Federal Hudson with an antique silk and beaver top hat – first presented in the spring of 1861– at the annual Beaver Hat Ceremony. For the past 160 years, PortsToronto has celebrated the official opening of the commercial shipping season by crowning the captain of the first ocean-going vessel or saltie to arrive at the port.
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Industry special interests wish to disparage the port authority to secure a new lease for a privately owned food waste processing and manufacturing plant in Vancouver, and unfortunately former premier Mike Harcourt didn’t reach out to the port authority for the other side of the story. We are not forcing the agricultural sector out of the port.
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Grain shipments are up about 25 per cent this year, and the agricultural sector has been driving significant growth in container trade, exporting legumes, fruit, seafood, meat, and more. Port authorities are federal government agencies. We don’t create trade, but we must accommodate it. We must also protect the environment and local communities from the impacts of trade challenges with multipl