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The Hamilton-Oshawa Port Authority (HOPA) is a port authority that controls ports in the cities of Hamilton and Oshawa in the Golden Horseshoe region of Ontario, Canada. It was created in 2019 when the Hamilton Port Authority and the Oshawa Port Authority were merged by the Government of Canada. [ 6 ]
The vast majority of containers moved by large, ocean-faring container ships are 20-foot (1 TEU) and 40-foot (2 TEU) ISO-standard shipping containers, with 40-foot units outnumbering 20-foot units to such an extent that the actual number of containers moved is between 55%–60% of the number of TEUs counted. [1]
The maritime facility handles container ships and bulk cargo and includes a container terminal. [1] [2] [3] The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) bought the piers in the 1950s when there was still much break bulk cargo activity in the port. The container terminal was built in the 1980s. [4]
Hamilton Port Authority. The Hamilton Port Authority, formerly known as Hamilton Harbour Commission, handles over 12 million metric tonnes of cargo through over 700 vessels each year. This ranks Hamilton as the busiest of all the ports of Canada's Great Lakes and 28% of all movements on the St. Lawrence Seaway System. [28]
On 18 February 2012, letters patent were issued to promote the Oshawa Harbour Commission to a port authority. [8]On 16 November 2012, a project document was released about the Saguenay Port Authority intermodal container plan, [9] which will impact the village of Tadoussac, and which needed the support of Denis Lebel, MP for Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean and Minister of Transport from May 2011.
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Rank Country / Region Container port traffic in TEUs Year 1 China 268,990,000 2022 2 United States 62,214,119 2022 3 Singapore 37,289,600 2022 4 South Korea ...
A container port, container terminal, or intermodal terminal is a facility where cargo containers are transshipped between different transport vehicles, for onward transportation. The transshipment may be between container ships and land vehicles, for example trains or trucks, in which case the terminal is described as a maritime container port.