First Container Ship Less than 2 Weeks Away

Thursday, October 18, 2007 03:58 AM

Just two weeks to go before the first container ship will arrive at the Prince Rupert Fairview Intermodal Container Terminal.

The terminal site has become very busy with the 200 strong workforce making sure it is up to speed on how to handle all the new equipment on site, including the three new cranes.

There are also 17 reach stackers to support container yard and intermodal on-dock double stack rail operations, and 34 terminal tractors. The crews are new but they have experience either as longshoremen or as crane operators who have gained experience on similar cranes at terminals in the eastern U.S.

CN is putting in to place the rail cars and locomotives that will move the containers down the line to Prince George, (where the new intermodal site is now up and running), and then on to the US mid west.

The first container ship is expected to arrive on October 31^st.

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