Vanterm
Container terminal in Vancouver, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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. Vanterm has a 619-metre (2,030 ft) berth with a depth of 15.5 metres, six ship-to-shore cranes, and is directly served by both Canadian Class 1 Railways, CN and CPKC. ILWU Local 500 and 514 make up the majority of the labour force.[1][2]
LaPointe Pier, now only a small part of the modern terminal, had its first container ship, the M.S. Axel Johnson, call its berth in 1969.[3] Vanterm was inaugurated as a container terminal in 1975[4] and run by Empire Stevedoring and later TSI Terminal Systems Inc. which rebranded to GCT Global Container Terminals.[citation needed]
A $160 million investment in 2019 upgraded terminal infrastructure, software, and equipment, including the acquisition of two modern ship-to-shore cranes, ten rubber tired gantry cranes, and 19 empty container handlers to increase its annual throughout capacity from 835,000 to 1 million TEUs.[5]
On January 28, 2019, the vessel Ever Summit struck the dock while berthing, causing damage to the vessel, berth, and a gantry crane. There were no injuries.[6]
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