10. What lies ahead in reducing the port’s carbon footprint?
We will continue down that path looking at understanding, measuring, and reducing our carbon footprint. We are exploring other opportunities for electrification and we continue to raise the standards for our truck fleet. Yard equipment is switching to biodiesel and other low emission fuels. And this is happening without huge amounts of government money unlike in the US. We have a lot to be proud of here.
11. Competition is heating up on the West Coast, what is PMV doing to keep ahead?
We are continuing to do what we do really well – deliver capacity and efficiency through collaboration. Our customers appreciate that we are aggressively driving change in our supply chain.
12. What major terminal or port development lies ahead?
The $750 million corridor investment will continue for several years and that is great. On the 10-year horizon, we are doing essential corridor debottlenecking ahead of plans to start the approval process for a new container facility Terminal 2 at Roberts Bank. Our two coal terminals are thinking about incremental improvements which could see annual port capacity grow further. On the potash side there’s a huge amount of investment in Saskatchewan and we are the primary gateway for those shipments. We expect shipments of potash over the next decade to reach another 10 million tonnes on the West Coast, beyond what’s already announced, and that’s a great opportunity for Port Metro Vancouver.