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Container terminal in Vancouver,
Port of Vancouver with Centerm in the foreground and Vanterm in the background

Vanterm is a container terminal in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is located on the south shore of the Burrard Inlet in Vancouver's East Side. It is operated by GCT Canada, a Vancouver-based company which also operates Deltaport another container terminal at the Port of Vancouver. Vanterm has a 619-metre (2,030 ft) berth with a depth of 15.5 metres, six ship-to-shore cranes, and is directly served by both Canadian Class 1 Railways, CN and CPKC. ILWU Local 500 and 514 make up the majority of the labour force.

History

LaPointe Pier, now only a small part of the modern terminal, had its first container ship, the M.S. Axel Johnson, call its berth in 1969. Vanterm was inaugurated as a container terminal in 1975 and run by Empire Stevedoring and later TSI Terminal Systems Inc. which rebranded to GCT Global Container Terminals.

A $160 million investment in 2019 upgraded terminal infrastructure, software, and equipment, including the acquisition of two modern ship-to-shore cranes, ten rubber tired gantry cranes, and 19 empty container handlers to increase its annual throughout capacity from 835,000 to 1 million TEUs.

On January 28, 2019, the vessel Ever Summit struck the dock while berthing, causing damage to the vessel, berth, and a gantry crane. There were no injuries.

See also

References

  1. "Cargo and Terminals, Container". Port of Vancouver. 2015-03-24. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
  2. "GCT Vanterm". GCT Canada. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
  3. "GCT marks Vancouver container-shipping milestone". Business in Vancouver. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
  4. Forward, Charles N. “The Development of Canada’s Five Leading National Ports.” Urban History Review / Revue d’histoire Urbaine 10, no. 3 (1982): 25–45. JSTOR 43561664.
  5. "GCT Global Container Terminals to invest $160 million in Vanterm". Business in Vancouver. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
  6. Government of Canada, Transportation Safety Board of Canada (2020-11-05). "Marine Transportation Safety Investigation Report m19p0020". www.tsb.gc.ca. Retrieved 2023-09-18.

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