DeltaPort is Expanding

Posted

on Sep 23, 2014

DeltaPort expansion. A new three berth container terminal at Roberts Bank will have capacity for 2.4 million containers.

Tanya Hawke and Chris Clarke from Port Metro Vancouver spoke to the club on September 23, 2014. She updated the club members on plans for DeltaPort and the new store front office Port Metro Vancouver is opening in Ladner.

Port Metro Vancouver is Canada’s largest and most diversified port, a gateway for domestic and international trade and tourism, and a major economic force in the region and in Delta.

Port Metro Vancouver is a non-shareholder, financially self-sufficient corporation established by the Government of Canada in 2008 and accountable to the federal Minister of Transport. It is the principal authority for shipping and port-related land and sea use in the Metro Vancouver region. In 2010, it was the largest port by tonnage in Canada and the fourth largest in North America.

The Container Capacity Improvement Program is the port's long-term strategy to meet anticipated growth in container traffic, which is expected to triple by the year 2030. The program consists of projects that both improve the efficiency of existing infrastructure and explore opportunities to build new infrastructure as demand rises. Projects include the Deltaport Terminal Road and Rail Improvement Project and the proposed Roberts Bank Terminal 2 project.

This will result in infrastructure upgrades that would increase Deltaport's container capacity by 600,000 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units), within the terminal's existing footprint. The Roberts Bank Terminal 2 project is a proposed marine container terminal that could provide an additional capacity of 2.4 million TEUs per year to meet forecasted demand until 2030.