I get excited a little bit reading articles like this one:
http://blog.innovate.bc.ca/?p=95
When it opens this fall, the new Fairview Container Terminal will have a capacity of 500,000 TEUs, or 20-foot-equivalent units, the standard measure for shipping containers. Phase two is expected to quadruple the port’s size to two million TEUs by 2011. If it reaches its projected four-million-TEU capacity in 2020, Prince Rupert will rival the Port of Vancouver’s planned container capacity of five million TEUs for that year. (In 2006 Vancouver container traffic hit 2.2 million TEUs.)
George Stalk, Jr. is senior VP and director of the Boston Consulting Group, a Boston-based firm that specializes in business strategy. He compares the Prince Rupert expansion to the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway during the 1950s. “This Northern Gateway notion is probably the single most important thing that Canadian provincial and federal governments can do to boost the economy,â€
CrazyMike:
I get excited a little bit reading articles like this one:
http://blog.innovate.bc.ca/?p=95
Ok so it’s a blog, and not an “article” per se. I guess I just get excited reading about it because for once we are seeing positive stuff in the media about Rupert, instead of the days when the only time we’d made the headlines was for a murder or for the Pulp Mill nonsense.
Actually it’s from an actual article, from BC Business.
But regardless of where it came from, as you say it’s nice to get some positive press about the place after all these years. Still waiting to see if things become as hectic as everyone predicts and if the great bounty of jobs really does arrive, but hell, it’s a lot better than whining about the bad ole days and the lost opportunities I guess…