Feds, industry spend big on Canada's ports in race to keep congestion from choking east-west trade

September 9, 2019

A longshore crane operator sits in front of a screen in the control room at Canada’s largest container terminal and moves a joystick ever so slightly to the left, remotely guiding a 40-foot container with a video-game-like interface...

In the year since the technology was introduced at GCT Deltaport, the time imported rail containers spend on-dock has dropped to 2.1 days, as of July, from an average of 4.4 days in 2018. The eight new electric-powered semi-automated cranes have fuelled labour strife with the longshore union over feared work reductions, but they’ve also made the terminal the most automated rail-loading facility in North America, perhaps, executives say, even the world...

This is excerpted from the 5 September 2019 edition of the Financial Post.


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