British Columbia shipping port adds capacity for 200,000 more shipping containers as first phase of expansion completes

The Fairview Container Terminal is undergoing a two-stage expansion, which, when completed, is expected to boost its annual capacity from 1.35 million shipping containers to 1.8 million.

The Fairview Container Terminal on the West Coast of British Columbia is expanding to accommodate a rising trend of shipping container traffic, which has grown from more than 776,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in 2015 up to more than 1.14 million TEUs in 2020.Photograph courtesy of the Prince Rupert Port Authority / Coppersky Productions

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BY JESSE CNOCKAERT

July 18, 2022

Completion of the first phase in a two-stage expansion of the Fairview Container Terminal on the West Coast of British Columbia earlier this month will support resiliency in Canada’s supply chain through the capacity to handle more than 200,000 additional shipping containers, says the president an...

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