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The Vancouver Port Authority was responsible for the Port of Vancouver, which was the largest port in Canada and the Pacific Northwest. The port had 25 major terminals.
The Port of Vancouver trades $43 billion in goods with more than 90 trading economies annually. The Vancouver Port Authority was the corporation responsible for management of the port, which, in addition to the city of Vancouver, includes all of Burrard Inlet and Roberts Bank Superport in Delta, a total of 233 kilometres (145 mi) to coastline. [3]
The Port of Vancouver USA is the furthest-inland deep-water port along the Columbia River, located in Vancouver, Washington and founded in 1912. [3] [4] [5] The port contains five terminals along with two of the largest mobile harbor cranes in North America. [6] The port is a government agency governed by three locally elected commissioners.
As of 2016, the Port of Vancouver is the fourth-largest port by tonnage in the Americas, [17] the busiest and largest in Canada, and the most diversified port in North America. [18] [19] While forestry remains its largest industry, Vancouver is well known as an urban centre surrounded by nature, making tourism its second-largest industry. [20]
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.
(Merged with Port Metro Vancouver) CA rank: 10 Roberts Bank Superport: North America: Canada, British Columbia: Strait of Georgia (Merged with Port Metro Vancouver) Victoria: North America: Canada, British Columbia: Strait of Juan de Fuca: Port Hueneme
Port of Vancouver (1964–2008) Vanterm; Victoria Harbour (British Columbia) W. Waddington Harbour This page was last edited on 1 September 2020, at 04:00 (UTC) ...
The Port of Vancouver supports 115,300 jobs in Canada and provides $1.4 billion a year in tax revenues. [6] Vancouver's central area has 60% of the region's office space and is home to headquarters of forest products and mining companies as well as branches of national and international banks, accounting and law firms.