Celebrating five years of operations at Fairview Terminal
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We’re celebrating five years of moving experiences. Prince Rupert’s container terminal links the world’s manufacturers to markets. Since opening in 2007, it has become North America’s fastest-growing container terminal. It has also helped create over 2,220 full-time jobs in British Columbia related to activities at the Port of Prince Rupert — while earning a global reputation for reliability, marine safety, and environmental sustainability. We salute the success of our terminal and transportation partners and acknowledge the enthusiasm of our neighbours. This is a moving story our whole city can be proud of.
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◆ PORT HISTORY
“Project Silk” becomes a reality with Fairview Terminal By Shaun Thomas The Northern View
For most of its existence, Prince Rupert’s economy was driven by resources. Being on the coast, fishing played a major role in the booming economy of this growing community, while the mill on Watson Island provided hundreds of high-paying jobs to the people of the north coast. While the mill and the fishing industry were the backbone of the Prince Rupert economy, the Prince Rupert Port Authority was plugging along with a coal and grain terminal in operation at Ridley Island, as well as a break-bulk facility at Fairview Terminal. But in the mid-1990s, some of the resource industries that had driven the Prince Rupert economy went into decline on the north coast. The fishing fleet dropped in size as more restrictions were put in place, and in 1998 the pulp mill shut its door leaving hundreds out of work. Over at the port authority, traffic through Fairview Terminal was also on the decline. In its heyday the terminal handled 800,000 tonnes of goods, while leading into 2007 that figure was closer to 20,000 tonnes.
Seeing the decline, in 1996 the team at the Prince Rupert Port Authority started working on “Project Silk” which was named after the silk trade that was once so desirable. The plans for “Project Silk” called for the development of a container terminal in Prince Rupert - another reason for the “Project Silk” name was many thought the industry would laugh at the idea of such a terminal in this location. To say that “Project Silk” was a long time in the making would be an understatement. It wasn’t until 2004, eight years later, when engineering and design work began on the facility itself and Maher Terminals came on board to operate the terminal. With an operator in place, it took another year of work to secure funding in the form of $30 million from the Federal Government, $30 million from the Province of BC, $30 million from CN, Maher Terminals committing $60 million for cranes and equipment and the Prince Rupert Port Authority committing the remaining $25 million for a total of $170 million. Construction began on the new terminal on January 24, 2006, and on September 12, 2007, people from around
the world descended on Prince Rupert to mark the opening of Fairview Terminal. In the five years since, Fairview Terminal has been driving the economy not only of Prince Rupert, but of the northern corridor as a whole. New businesses and jobs have sprung up, investment in the region has boomed and
more and more shippers have looked to move their goods through Prince Rupert. In this special section, we’ll take a look at the first five years of operations of Fairview Terminal and just what it has meant to the north coast and northern BC as a whole.
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◆ LOOKING BACK
Port Authority CEO reflects on five years of Fairview volumes along the west coast of North America were declining, The Northern View so it was a volatile time to be On September 12, 2007, Prince opening a new terminal,” he Rupert Port Authority president and said. “Looking back, it is quite a CEO Don Krusel stood on stage before remarkable feat because we an appreciative have not only convinced the crowd of Prince skeptics that the business Rupert residents model we proposed 10 years and spoke of what ago works, we’ve defied the the new container probability by becoming the terminal meant fastest growing container to people in the terminal in North America... community and This year, 2012, we will in the region. exceed the original design Five years capacity and will ship more later, Krusel said than 500,000 TEUs, so it the excitement of truly is remarkable.” cutting the ribbon As well as coming at was shared with a time when the global a bit of concern PRPA president Don Krusel economy was experiencing about how the difficulties, it was also a time terminal would when the local economy was perform. seeking an identity. The pulp “We certainly had a lot of hope and desire to see the mill had closed nine years ago, and port grow as a container port, but there other terminals in Prince Rupert had was also a lot of anxiety being felt as the volume challenges of their own. “We quickly forget that Prince Rupert terminal opened. I recall there were a lot of skeptics who didn’t believe Prince was on its knees economically until the Rupert could be a viable container port opening. I speak of the anxiety I felt about to access the Asia-Pacific...And just the opening, but I think it is fair to say that as the ribbon was being cut the global the community as a whole was anxious economy was falling and container about the future of Prince Rupert,” said
Krusel. Prince Rupert Port Authority president and “Fairview Terminal has been CEO Don Krusel stands in front of a bustling a real game changer for Prince Fairview Terminal. Rupert...Our own economic impact study shows that 900 new Prince Rupert. I think it is safe to say that jobs have been created across northern Fairview Terminal brought back some BC as a result of the terminal operations, economic certainty to the community.” and a large portion of those jobs is in See Success, page 5
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◆ GATEWAY TO ASIA
Success of Fairview laid the groundwork for expansion Continued from page 4
Along with the jobs related to Fairview Terminal and containerization, Krusel notes that the success of Fairview Terminal has really opened the eyes of the shipping industry to what Prince Rupert can offer in terms of access to Asia. “Before Fairview Terminal opened, the port of Prince Rupert was not well known internationally. Even when we were promoting Prince Rupert as a container terminal, we would have to go to the shelf and get an atlas to show people where it was. We don’t have to worry about that anymore,” he said, pointing to the recent Federal Maritime Commission report as proof of Prince Rupert’s importance in trade. “As commercial trade and bulk good movement grows, Prince Rupert plays a dominant role and that is what draws LNG proposals, expanded coal capacity and a number of other bulk shippers to look at Prince Rupert as a solution to trade and transportation.” No one entity, however, can claim responsibility for the success of Fairview Terminal. Krusel said the world-class facility operated by Maher Terminals and the reliable movement of goods by
CN need to be acknowledged, as do the people on the ground working the ships that come in. “I can’t speak highly enough of the men and women at the terminal. One of the great success stories of Prince Rupert is the productivity of the people that has given us one of the highest productivity Don Krusel rates in North America. Sure some of that has to do with the equipment, but a lot of it has to do with the commitment of the workforce,” he said. “Our success is tied directly to the loyalty and dedication of the workforce.” And while there have been a lot of memorable milestones in the life of Fairview Terminal, Krusel said his most memorable moment has to do with the first ship to call on Prince Rupert, the COSCO ANTWERP. “My most memorable moment was standing on the bridge of the ship and watching containers being offloaded and the business of the terminal,” he said. “Before that I had stood on terminals around the world in cities like Hong Kong and Los Angeles and Seattle, and I had to pinch myself and realize this wasn’t a big city like Hong Kong or LA – it was the little city of Prince Rupert
“There is no indication that the growth in the next five years will be interrupted.”
where this was happening.” With five years at the terminal now in the past, Krusel anticipates even more success going forward. “We are in the final stages of working with Maher Terminals on the commencement of construction that would take Fairview Terminal to a 1.2 million to 1.3 million TEU capacity... There is no indication that the growth in
the next five years will be interrupted, and the challenge now is to manage that growth,” he said. “The success of the past five years has set the stage for dramatic expansion of volume through Prince Rupert for other commodities. I see an exciting future for Fairview Terminal, but I see an even more exciting future for the port of Prince Rupert.”
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â—† MOVEMENT OF GOODS
Port traffic growth more than double its first full year By Shaun Thomas The Northern View
At seven p.m. on October 30, amidst high winds and rain, MV COSCO ANTWERP made its way into Fairview Terminal in Prince Rupert to mark the commencement of operations at the terminal and the first container ship to stop on the North Coast. Since the ANTWERP unloaded its 1,100 TEUs the traffic through Fairview Terminal has only grown, and it has grown by leaps and bounds in the last five years. By the end of 2007 a total of 16,703 TEUs had made its way through Prince Rupert, signalling what was to come for the newest gateway to the Asia-Pacific. The following year, however, was truly an indication of the success that Fairview Terminal was to be. At the rate of 16,703 containers per two months, one would expect the full year to equate to around one hundred thousand TEUs. But the actual number of containers in 2008 was close to double that figure as 181,877 TEUs came ashore in Prince Rupert. In the second full year of operations, the speed and efficiency was garnering international attention in the shipping world as Maher Terminals and members
of the International Longshore TEUs and Warehouse Union exceeded expectations. Overall, there were 265,258.5 TEUs, an increase of 45.8 per cent over 2008. 2009 was also the first time that the Prince Rupert Port Authority broke down the stats in terms of imports and exports, giving a bit of a clearer picture of what was happening at Fairview Terminal. Imports through Prince Rupert were up 54.2 per cent, jumping from 101,082 TEUs to 155,893.3 TEUs, while exports climbed from 80,795 TEUs in 2008 to 109,365 TEUs in 2009. By the time 2010 came to a conclusion, the rate of growth 2009 2011 2012 to date 2007 2010 2008 at Fairview Terminal had slowed somewhat but was still impressive. In 2010 there were 343,366 and imports growing by 21 per cent 241,635 through to the end of August TEUs being moved in and out of Prince and surpassing the 234,742 container 2011. Imports are up 49.4 per cent yearRupert, up 29.5 per cent from 2009. mark. The number of loaded containers over-year, while the number of loaded Imports had climbed 24.2 per cent year- being shipped out grew by 59 per cent containers being shipped to Asia is up over-year and were just shy of 200,000 compared to 2010 and, for the first time 36.1 per cent. Within four fully operational years, TEUs, while the number of loaded since 2007, passed the 100,000 container from the end of 2008 to the end of containers being shipped to China was mark. While this year may not be over yet, 2011, container volumes increased from up 62.8 per cent. That trend continued in 2011, with container volumes in the first eight 181,877 TEUs to 410,469 TEUs, more exports growing by 20 per cent and months of 2012 are up 52.6 per cent, than 2.25 times the traffic of the first full surpassing the 410,000 TEU mark sitting at 368,647 compared to just year of operations.
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◆ PORT IMPACT
Local leaders comment on the importance of Fairview employment coming from the fishing industry prior to and The Northern View after World War II. The mayor “We are really also mentioned the pulp mill Although planning at Watson Island, coastal for Fairview Terminal recognizing that Prince logging and sawmills as other started back in 1996, significant employers. the Prince Rupert Rupert’s port-related “We are really recognizing Port Authority, Maher that Prince Rupert’s portTerminals, and CN activity is a lot of what related activity is a lot of what celebrated the grand our future will be. My hope is opening of Fairview our future will be...” that the City of Prince Rupert Terminal on September 12, 2007. Mayor Jack Mussallem and the Prince Rupert Port Authority will work together With successful and will become a modern operations at the port on the Pacific rim of the terminal reaching the world,” said Mussallem. five-year mark, the “I’m very optimistic moving forward Prince Rupert Northern View talked to a number of community leaders to discuss that the quality of life will improve in what the container port has done to and Prince Rupert with new jobs that are created, and that we will be able to for the community, region and world. “It has given a sense of hope and help the community grow and assist the renewal. Rupert has been through many current residents.” Mayor Mussallem says that the tough years so watching something new get built and some people go back to work port has put Prince Rupert on the map, has been really positive,” said Skeena- bringing up how he has met with consul generals from China, Norway and Bulkley Valley MP Nathan Cullen. Prince Rupert Mayor Jack Mussallem Japan and with companies from around said the community was largely the world that are interested in the resource-based before the opening of port. the container port, with a big portion of See Fairview, page 8
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◆ PORT IMPACT
Fairview’s opening affecting the region and the world Continued from page 7
MP Cullen believes the port has had a global impact. “The port’s impact on the national economy is as big as it on the local economy. It’s connected us better to the rest of the world. We’re an important part of the conversation of global trade.” North Coast MLA Gary Coons said that the community saw a “waste of economic and employment opportunities” before the container terminal opened. “We had hit the doldrums with the closing of the Skeena Mill. We lost hundreds of good paying jobs.” Coons went on to say that the port has changed the whole economic landscape of the region. “Opening [the terminal] five years ago was the first step to building a world class transportation system that brought
a new era in our community and opened up extraordinary opportunities for those in the region as far as employment and good paying union jobs.” And since the container terminal held its grand opening five years ago, the number of union members in Prince Rupert’s International Longshore and Warehouse Union division has jumped significantly. According to secretary-treasurer and dispatcher of Prince Rupert’s ILWU division, Tom MacDonald, before the port there were 35 union members and approximately 45 casual workers. There are now 85 union members and around 300 casuals. “We have seen a significant numbert of jobs created from port-related activity,” said Jason Scherr, who is the president of the Prince Rupert and District Chamber of Commerce, mentioning a study
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done by the port that showed there have been over 900 jobs created over the past few years, something he says is good not only for the people who are now employed but the business community as well. “That provides the money in the community that allows businesses to stay open and new businesses to start establishing themselves.” Scherr says there has been a change in opinion in terms of the local economy since the container terminal started operations. “There seems to be a lot of File photo positive energy around what’s Atlantic Rail Services president William Shephappening with the development pard, CN assistant vice-president of system operaof the port and expansion of tions Albert Nashman, Maher Terminals senior activity at Fairview especially. vice-president of sales and marketing Frans Van You’re seeing growth out at Riemsdyk, Port Authority president and CEO Don Ridley Island in terms of new Krusel and Maher Terminals president Joseph terminal development. I think Curto stand in front of the first trainload of it’s all very positive growth containers leave Prince Rupert. as we move forward,” said MLA Coons is also very excited for Scherr, who is also the manager of Environmental Sustainability for the the future of the terminal “I look forward to, as many Rupertites Prince Rupert Port Authority. “The general mood in town is really do, to the second phase expansion where positive…There’s a sense of optimism we’re going to quadruple the container about how much more the port will capacity and have more opportunities for youth in the community and region.” become,” echoed Cullen.
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◆ IMPORT/EXPORT
CN Rail investing, seeing growth as a result of Fairview By Shaun Thomas The Northern View
While many in the community have seen the growth of Fairview Terminal and the impact on Prince Rupert, there is also no question that the movement of containers has had a huge impact on the business of CN. The sale of BC Rail to CN for $1 billion in 2003 was one of the key pieces to pursuing the terminal development, and since 2007 CN has invested, and continues to invest, significantly in the northern gateway corridor route. As recently as this week CN announced that it would be spending $12 million to increase capacity at its intermodal yard in Prince George. “The Prince George (centre) is strategically located midway between Edmonton, Alberta, and Prince Rupert, which are roughly 1,000 miles apart,” said Keith Creel, CN executive vicepresident and chief operating officer in a press release. “The facility serviced locomotives for more than 9,000 CN trains that transited
the city last year. We are at maximum capacity at the centre, with three shifts per day, seven days a week, and we need to expand it to handle existing and forecast growth of intermodal, coal and other traffic in northern BC.” CN will increase floor space at the Prince George locomotive shop by 50 per cent to nearly 50,000 square feet, permitting the addition of four repair bays with pits to handle the forecast increase in locomotive inspections and repairs. But even before this announcement CN was investing to improve the efficiency of the line. This year the company is spending $47 million on the corridor between Prince Rupert and Prince George, including extending five sidings, and expects to invest another $67 million between 2013 and 2015. “At any given time there are about 18 trains running on the tracks in BC North. We’ve been growing at about 20 per cent per annum over the past several years, and we expect
that growth to continue,” said Doug Ryhorchuk, CN’s general manager for BC North. With that investment comes the need to hire more people. In 2011 CN hired 180 people between Prince Rupert and Prince George, and had hired 50 new staff in the first five months of 2012. But it’s not just investment in the current line resulting from the opening of Fairview Terminal. In June CN announced a new import/export container service between Prince Rupert, Calgary and Edmonton. “Alberta is a major growing economy and a fast growing
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economy with a demand for a variety of products... We think that time is right to feed that market,” said CN communications director Mark Hallman. As well as increasing linkage to Edmonton and Calgary, CN is spending $200 million on a new intermodal terminal in Calgary to handle containers coming from and going to Prince Rupert. “This is going to be a significant undertaking for us and clearly represents a
major investment in serving the Alberta economy,” he said, adding that the facility will include room for distribution centres and two million square feet of warehouse space. As one of the port partners in Fairview Terminal, investing $30 million into converting Fairview from a break-bulk to a container terminal, CN made a substantial investment and is now seeing growth in its business and its employee numbers as a result of the terminal operations.
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Fairview Terminal plays a major role for both the provincial and federal governments to access Asian markets, and both governments are taking steps to increase trade.
â—† NEW OFFICE, NEW DEAL
Province, feds continuing to promote trade with China By Shaun Thomas The Northern View
As Canadian exports to Asia continue to grow, with trade to
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◆ A LOOK BACK
Recounting the opening ceremony By Shaun Thomas The Northern View
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Thousands of people from around the world made their way to Fairview Terminal on September 12 to mark the official grand opening of Prince Rupert’s new container terminal during two separate celebrations over the course of the day. The first File photo celebration was Delegates cut the ribbon to open Fairview Terminal. an invitation only Later that evening an estimated 7,000 event that kicked off at one p.m. and ran through to 3:30 p.m. and featured a people made their way to the facility guest list that was more than 600 strong for a public celebration that featured and included Premier Gordon Campbell, live entertainment, fireworks, games Minister of International Trade and and activities for the kids and tours of the Pacific Gateway David Emerson, HMCS Ottawa. And while those who came out to both Western Economic Diversification Minister Rona Ambrose, provincial ceremonies recognized the significance Transportation Minister Kevin Falcon, of the phase one opening the prospect of Maher Terminals President and CEO future development was not far from the Brian Maher, CN Executive vice- minds of anyone as talks around a phase president Jim Foote, mayors from across two expansion, which would increase the province, and representatives from capacity to two million TEUs, continue. “I’ve said many times that we the City of Chicago, the office of the Governor of Illinois, the China Ocean are going to celebrate today and the Shipping Company and the port of tomorrow morning go right back to work. We have got to get phase two Ningbo in China. Throughout the day, the various underway. Obviously the port is in the speakers didn’t hesitate to stress just driver’s seat, and we will be the wind how important the new facility was to in their wings any way we can be, but the city, the province and North America we all need to work together as we did for phase one to get phase two done as a whole. “This is a very historic day for the so the opportunities continue,” said city, but it is much, much bigger than just Prince Rupert Mayor Herb Pond, who a container terminal in Prince Rupert. lead hundreds of people attending the We are not just opening up a container public ceremony in a “phase two” chant terminal here in Prince Rupert. We are directed at the government and industry opening up a brand new transportation leaders assembled on the stage. “Because a lot of this comes under and trade corridor between Asia and North America,” said Port Authority our authority we will look at alternative ways that phase two can be developed president and CEO Don Krusel. “Today we are opening phase one of and make sure that there are no barriers what will be a many phase container to private investors coming in to put the terminal development facility on the infrastructure into the ground. We are not Northwest coast …Everyone is going to charging ahead wanting to put taxpayer’s benefit, the whole region. We are looking money in to where the private sector will at 800 new jobs by the end of 2008, do the job, but we will certainly work 2,200 direct and indirect jobs by the end with the development stakeholders and of 2011 and this is just the beginning. It look at what we need to do. It may be is the beginning of opening the North, money, it may not be money and more it is the beginning of opening a corridor often it is more regulatory approvals that right through to the heart of Canada and are needed,” noted Emerson. With the opening now in the books it is transformative. It’s very exciting for me and it’s the equivalent of the St. the next major milestone for the port Lawrence Seaway investment 50 years will be the arrival of the first container ago. I think in 20 or 30 years people ship from COSCO shipping lines, which in the province will look back and say Maher Canada General Manager Mark ‘This was day one. This was the day it Schepp said is scheduled to occur on October 31. all started,’” added Premier Campbell.
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◆ TRIPLE THE NUMBER
Three shipping services keeping Fairview Terminal busy By Shaun Thomas The Northern View
Having a terminal is not much good if you don’t have customers who will ship through it. Fortunately for Fairview Terminal, that was never a concern. on May 14, 2007, a full five months before the ribbon was
cut and more than six months before the ANTWERP arrived on a stormy October night the China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) Container Lines signed a deal with CN Rail to use Fairview Terminal. For more than eight months though, there was one ship per week calling on Fairview Terminal while those in
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Looking ahead to the future of Fairview By Shaun Thomas The Northern View Shortly after the ribbon was cut on phase one of Fairview Terminal, talk around the community turned to phase II of the
Prince Rupert Port Authority’s plans for container movement in and out of the north coast. And, in fact, it didn’t take long for the environmental assessment for phase II to get underway. According to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, the assessment commenced on March 11, 2008, which is just six months after the ribbon was cut on phase one. The initial plans for phase II called for the terminal to be built out towards Ridley Island to quadruple the capacity of the terminal from the initial 500,000 TEUs up to a possible 2 million TEUs. The project would extend the wharf to 800 metres, achieve an 18 metre (59 feet) minimum water depth, increase the dock area to 56 hectares (139 acres), and quadruple to eight the number of postpanamax cranes. The expanded facility would have an on-site storage capacity of 28,560 TEUs at five high. And while the expansion is still planned to the far end of the existing terminal, the latest filing with the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency shows a much different plan
for future expansion of Fairview Terminal. Expansion will now take place in two phases. Phase one is expected to get underway once a commercial decision to proceed is made, which would be in late 2012 at the earliest, and it includes expanding the terminal north towards town – something that was not included in the 2009 submission to the agency – and the construction of a five kilometre road connecting Fairview Terminal to Ridley Island to allow truck traffic to bypass downtown. Phase two, which will not get underway until after 2015, although a decision to proceed with construction and build out of the southern expansion will depend on market conditions at that time, will expand the terminal south toward Ridley Island, but not to the same extent. The end result is that the terrestrial portion of the terminal has been reduced from 33 hectares to 15.7 hectares and the amount of material to be disposed of at sea is reduced from 1.8 million cubic metres to just 180,000 cubic metres. Another change from the 2009 submission is the number of ships calling on Prince Rupert and the number of trucks moving through the terminal. According to the report, when phase one of the expansion is complete there is projected to be 10 vessels per week
calling on Prince Rupert along with 1,570 truck movements while the second stage of the expansion could see up to 14 vessels per week and 2,500 truck movements per week. To accommodate the increased vessel traffic the Prince Rupert Port Authority is planning to add an additional six cranes to the existing three currently at the terminal.
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