Prince Rupert Handles Record Cargo

1/28/2011 9:55:53 AM

Container volume increased to 343,366 20-foot equivalent units in 2010, a 29.5 percent increase over 2009, at the three-year-old container port of Prince Rupert in remote northern British Columbia. Executives say they expect a similar spurt in 2011.   Coal in bulk led the port's overall cargo-handling to a record 16,424,512 metric tons in 2010, the Prince Rupert Port Authority reported.   The container part of the port, which has completed three full years of operation, is "operating at about 50 per cent of capacity right now,” Shaun Stevenson, vice-president of the Prince Rupert Port Authority, said. “We should grow strongly again in 2011 and approach capacity of more than 700,000 TEUs in perhaps the next two or three years."   The Journal of Commerce Online

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