A large portion of Canada's biggest port was shut down on Wednesday after a chemical fire broke out amid numerous shipping containers piled up in a yard east of Vancouver's downtown core...

With the fire still burning, it was unclear when operations would return to normal at the Port and surrounding businesses.

This has been excerpted from the 4 March 2015 edition of Reuters Canada and is available in its entirety at:
http://ca.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idCAKBN0M102I20150305