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The port of Montreal will be equipped of a new container terminal
It will enter in exercise between 2023 and 2024 and will have a annual ability to 1,15 million teu
December 5, 2019
In the port of Montreal terminal will be constructed to a new container that will have a annual ability to traffic pairs to 1,15 million teu. The work will be started the next year and the landing place, situated in the area of Contrecoeur, will become operating between 2023 and 2024. The project will be financed with 300 million dollars Canadian (USA 226 million dollars) from Canada Infrastructure Bank.
The Harbour Authority of Montreal previews that the realization of the new terminal will almost generate 5 thousand places of work in the phase of construction and that the new landing place will generate a contribution a Canadian one-off of 470 million dollars to the national Gross Domestic Product one, of which 364 million to the GDP of the Quebec. When the terminal enters in exercise supports about job one thousand places direct and has an impact on the GDP national of 119 million dollars, of which 104 million for the Quebec.
In 2018, the port of Montreal has enlivened a containerized trade record pairs to 1,7 million teu, with an increment of +9.2% on the year precedence. In terms of weight last year the traffic of the container in the Canadian harbour port of call has been pairs to 14,5 million tons (+5.2%) on a total traffic of 38,9 million tons (+2.3%) that it includes also 16,4 million tons of liquid bulk (+11.7%), 7,8 million tons of solid bulk (- 16.1%) and 185 thousand conventional tons of goods (- 19.1%).
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In the port of Montreal terminal will be constructed to a new container that will have a annual ability to traffic pairs to 1,15 million teu. The work will be started the next year and the landing place, situated in the area of Contrecoeur, will become operating between 2023 and 2024. The project will be financed with 300 million dollars Canadian (USA 226 million dollars) from Canada Infrastructure Bank.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
