Celebrating five years of Fairview Terminal

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- The Northern VIEW - Wednesday, September 12, 2012 www.thenorthernview.com

We’re celebrating five years of moving experiences.Prince Rupert’s container terminal links the world’s manufacturers to markets. Since opening in 2007, it has

become North America’s fastest-growing container terminal. It has also helped create over 2,220 full-time jobs in

British Columbia related to activities at the Port of Prince Rupert — while earning a global reputation for reliability,

marine safety, and environmental sustainability. We salute the success of our terminal and transportation partners

and acknowledge the enthusiasm of our neighbours. This is a moving story our whole city can be proud of.

By Shaun Thomas The Northern View

For most of its existence, Prince Rupert’s economy was driven by resources.

Being on the coast, fishing played a major role in the booming economy of this growing community, while the mill on Watson Island provided hundreds of high-paying jobs to the people of the north coast.

While the mill and the fishing industry were the backbone of the Prince Rupert economy, the Prince Rupert Port Authority was plugging along with a coal and grain terminal in operation at Ridley Island, as well as a break-bulk facility at Fairview Terminal.

But in the mid-1990s, some of the resource industries that had driven the Prince Rupert economy went into decline on the north coast. The fishing fleet dropped in size as more restrictions were put in place, and in 1998 the pulp mill shut its door leaving hundreds out of work.

Over at the port authority, traffic through Fairview Terminal was also on the decline. In its heyday the terminal handled 800,000 tonnes of goods, while leading into 2007 that figure was closer to 20,000 tonnes.

Seeing the decline, in 1996 the team at the Prince Rupert Port Authority started working on “Project Silk” which was named after the silk trade that was once so desirable. The plans for “Project Silk” called for the development of a container terminal in Prince Rupert - another reason for the “Project Silk” name was many thought the industry would laugh at the idea of such a terminal in this location.

To say that “Project Silk” was a long time in the making would be an understatement. It wasn’t until 2004, eight years later, when engineering and design work began on the facility itself and Maher Terminals came on board to operate the terminal.

With an operator in place, it took another year of work to secure funding in the form of $30 million from the Federal Government, $30 million from the Province of BC, $30 million from CN, Maher Terminals committing $60 million for cranes and equipment and the Prince Rupert Port Authority committing the remaining $25 million for a total of $170 million.

Construction began on the new terminal on January 24, 2006, and on September 12, 2007, people from around

the world descended on Prince Rupert to mark the opening of Fairview Terminal.

In the five years since, Fairview Terminal has been driving the economy not only of Prince Rupert, but of the northern corridor as a whole. New businesses and jobs have sprung up, investment in the region has boomed and

more and more shippers have looked to move their goods through Prince Rupert.

In this special section, we’ll take a look at the first five years of operations of Fairview Terminal and just what it has meant to the north coast and northern BC as a whole.

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On September 12, 2007, Prince Rupert Port Authority president and CEO Don Krusel stood on stage before an appreciative crowd of Prince Rupert residents and spoke of what the new container terminal meant to people in the community and in the region.

Five years later, Krusel said the excitement of cutting the ribbon was shared with a bit of concern about how the terminal would perform.

“We certainly had a lot of hope and desire to see the port grow as a container port, but there was also a lot of anxiety being felt as the terminal opened. I recall there were a lot of skeptics who didn’t believe Prince Rupert could be a viable container port to access the Asia-Pacific...And just as the ribbon was being cut the global economy was falling and container

volumes along the west coast of North America were declining, so it was a volatile time to be opening a new terminal,” he said.

“Looking back, it is quite a remarkable feat because we have not only convinced the skeptics that the business model we proposed 10 years ago works, we’ve defied the probability by becoming the fastest growing container terminal in North America...This year, 2012, we will exceed the original design capacity and will ship more than 500,000 TEUs, so it truly is remarkable.”

As well as coming at a time when the global economy was experiencing difficulties, it was also a time when the local economy was seeking an identity. The pulp

mill had closed nine years ago, and other terminals in Prince Rupert had volume challenges of their own.

“We quickly forget that Prince Rupert was on its knees economically until the opening. I speak of the anxiety I felt about the opening, but I think it is fair to say that the community as a whole was anxious about the future of Prince Rupert,” said

Krusel. “Fairview Terminal has been

a real game changer for Prince Rupert...Our own economic impact study shows that 900 new jobs have been created across northern BC as a result of the terminal operations, and a large portion of those jobs is in

Prince Rupert. I think it is safe to say that Fairview Terminal brought back some economic certainty to the community.”

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Prince Rupert Port Authority president and CEO Don Krusel stands in front of a bustling Fairview Terminal.

“...There were a lot of skeptics who didn’t be-lieve Prince Rupert could be a viable container port to access the Asia-Pacifi c.”

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5th Anniversary of the completion of the Fairview Container Terminal.

This was a major step in opening up the Northwest Trade Corridor.

Along with the jobs related to Fairview Terminal and containerization, Krusel notes that the success of Fairview Terminal has really opened the eyes of the shipping industry to what Prince Rupert can offer in terms of access to Asia.

“Before Fairview Terminal opened, the port of Prince Rupert was not well known internationally. Even when we were promoting Prince Rupert as a container terminal, we would have to go to the shelf and get an atlas to show people where it was. We don’t have to worry about that anymore,” he said, pointing to the recent Federal Maritime Commission report as proof of Prince Rupert’s importance in trade.

“As commercial trade and bulk good movement grows, Prince Rupert plays a dominant role and that is what draws LNG proposals, expanded coal capacity and a number of other bulk shippers to look at Prince Rupert as a solution to trade and transportation.”

No one entity, however, can claim responsibility for the success of Fairview Terminal. Krusel said the world-class facility operated by Maher Terminals and the reliable movement of goods by

CN need to be acknowledged, as do the people on the ground working the ships that come in.

“I can’t speak highly enough of the men and women at the terminal. One of the great success stories of Prince Rupert is the productivity of the people that has given us one of the highest productivity rates in North America. Sure some of that has to do with the equipment, but a lot of it has to do with the commitment of the

workforce,” he said. “Our success is tied directly to

the loyalty and dedication of the workforce.”

And while there have been a lot of memorable milestones in the life of Fairview Terminal, Krusel said his most memorable moment has to do with the first ship to call on Prince Rupert, the COSCO ANTWERP.

“My most memorable moment was standing on the bridge of the ship and watching containers being offloaded and the business of the terminal,” he said.

“Before that I had stood on terminals around the world in cities like Hong Kong and Los Angeles and Seattle, and I had to pinch myself and realize this wasn’t a big city like Hong Kong or LA – it was the little city of Prince Rupert

where this was happening.” With five years at the terminal now

in the past, Krusel anticipates even more success going forward.

“We are in the final stages of working with Maher Terminals on the commencement of construction that would take Fairview Terminal to a 1.2 million to 1.3 million TEU capacity...There is no indication that the growth in

the next five years will be interrupted, and the challenge now is to manage that growth,” he said.

“The success of the past five years has set the stage for dramatic expansion of volume through Prince Rupert for other commodities. I see an exciting future for Fairview Terminal, but I see an even more exciting future for the port of Prince Rupert.”


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At seven p.m. on October 30, amidst high winds and rain, MV COSCO ANTWERP made its way into Fairview Terminal in Prince Rupert to mark the commencement of operations at the terminal and the first container ship to stop on the North Coast.

Since the ANTWERP unloaded its 1,100 TEUs the traffic through Fairview Terminal has only grown, and it has grown by leaps and bounds in the last five years. By the end of 2007 a total of 16,703 TEUs had made its way through Prince Rupert, signalling what was to come for the newest gateway to the Asia-Pacific.

The following year, however, was truly an indication of the success that Fairview Terminal was to be. At the rate of 16,703 containers per two months, one would expect the full year to equate to around one hundred thousand TEUs. But the actual number of containers in 2008 was close to double that figure as 181,877 TEUs came ashore in Prince Rupert.

In the second full year of operations, the speed and efficiency was garnering international attention in the shipping world as Maher Terminals and members

of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union exceeded expectations. Overall, there were 265,258.5 TEUs, an increase of 45.8 per cent over 2008.

2009 was also the first time that the Prince Rupert Port Authority broke down the stats in terms of imports and exports, giving a bit of a clearer picture of what was happening at Fairview Terminal. Imports through Prince Rupert were up 54.2 per cent, jumping from 101,082 TEUs to 155,893.3 TEUs, while exports climbed from 80,795 TEUs in 2008 to 109,365 TEUs in 2009.

By the time 2010 came to a conclusion, the rate of growth at Fairview Terminal had slowed somewhat but was still impressive. In 2010 there were 343,366 TEUs being moved in and out of Prince Rupert, up 29.5 per cent from 2009. Imports had climbed 24.2 per cent year-over-year and were just shy of 200,000 TEUs, while the number of loaded containers being shipped to China was up 62.8 per cent.

That trend continued in 2011, with exports growing by 20 per cent and surpassing the 410,000 TEU mark

and imports growing by 21 per cent and surpassing the 234,742 container mark. The number of loaded containers being shipped out grew by 59 per cent compared to 2010 and, for the first time since 2007, passed the 100,000 container mark.

While this year may not be over yet, container volumes in the first eight months of 2012 are up 52.6 per cent, sitting at 368,647 compared to just

241,635 through to the end of August 2011. Imports are up 49.4 per cent year-over-year, while the number of loaded containers being shipped to Asia is up 36.1 per cent.

Within four fully operational years, from the end of 2008 to the end of 2011, container volumes increased from 181,877 TEUs to 410,469 TEUs, more than 2.25 times the traffic of the first full year of operations.

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Although planning for Fairview Terminal started back in 1996, the Prince Rupert Port Authority, Maher Terminals, and CN celebrated the grand opening of Fairview Terminal on September 12, 2007.

With successful operations at the terminal reaching the five-year mark, the Prince Rupert Northern View talked to a number of community leaders to discuss what the container port has done to and for the community, region and world.

“It has given a sense of hope and renewal. Rupert has been through many tough years so watching something new get built and some people go back to work has been really positive,” said Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP Nathan Cullen.

Prince Rupert Mayor Jack Mussallem said the community was largely resource-based before the opening of the container port, with a big portion of

employment coming from the fishing industry prior to and after World War II. The mayor also mentioned the pulp mill at Watson Island, coastal logging and sawmills as other significant employers.

“We are really recognizing that Prince Rupert’s port-related activity is a lot of what our future will be. My hope is that the City of Prince Rupert and the Prince Rupert Port Authority will work together and will become a modern port on the Pacific rim of the world,” said Mussallem.

“I’m very optimistic moving forward that the quality of life will improve in Prince Rupert with new jobs that are created, and that we will be able to help the community grow and assist the current residents.”

Mayor Mussallem says that the port has put Prince Rupert on the map, bringing up how he has met with consul generals from China, Norway and Japan and with companies from around the world that are interested in the port.


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MP Cullen believes the port has had a global impact.

“The port’s impact on the national economy is as big as it on the local economy. It’s connected us better to the rest of the world. We’re an important part of the conversation of global trade.”

North Coast MLA Gary Coons said that the community saw a “waste of economic and employment opportunities” before the container terminal opened.

“We had hit the doldrums with the closing of the Skeena Mill. We lost hundreds of good paying jobs.”

Coons went on to say that the port has changed the whole economic landscape of the region.

“Opening [the terminal] five years ago was the first step to building a world class transportation system that brought

a new era in our community and opened up extraordinary opportunities for those in the region as far as employment and good paying union jobs.”

And since the container terminal held its grand opening five years ago, the number of union members in Prince Rupert’s International Longshore and Warehouse Union division has jumped significantly. According to secretary-treasurer and dispatcher of Prince Rupert’s ILWU division, Tom MacDonald, before the port there were 35 union members and approximately 45 casual workers. There are now 85 union members and around 300 casuals.

“We have seen a significant numbert of jobs created from port-related activity,” said Jason Scherr, who is the president of the Prince Rupert and District Chamber of Commerce, mentioning a study

done by the port that showed there have been over 900 jobs created over the past few years, something he says is good not only for the people who are now employed but the business community as well.

“That provides the money in the community that allows businesses to stay open and new businesses to start establishing themselves.”

Scherr says there has been a change in opinion in terms of the local economy since the container terminal started operations.

“There seems to be a lot of positive energy around what’s happening with the development of the port and expansion of activity at Fairview especially. You’re seeing growth out at Ridley Island in terms of new terminal development. I think it’s all very positive growth as we move forward,” said Scherr, who is also the manager of Environmental Sustainability for the Prince Rupert Port Authority.

“The general mood in town is really positive…There’s a sense of optimism about how much more the port will become,” echoed Cullen.

MLA Coons is also very excited for the future of the terminal

“I look forward to, as many Rupertites do, to the second phase expansion where we’re going to quadruple the container capacity and have more opportunities for youth in the community and region.”

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While many in the community have seen the growth of Fairview Terminal and the impact on Prince Rupert, there is also no question that the movement of containers has had a huge impact on the business of CN.

The sale of BC Rail to CN for $1 billion in 2003 was one of the key pieces to pursuing the terminal development, and since 2007 CN has invested, and continues to invest, significantly in the northern gateway corridor route.

As recently as this week CN announced that it would be spending $12 million to increase capacity at its intermodal yard in Prince George.

“The Prince George (centre) is strategically located midway between Edmonton, Alberta, and Prince Rupert, which are roughly 1,000 miles apart,” said Keith Creel, CN executive vice-president and chief operating officer in a press release.

“The facility serviced locomotives for more than 9,000 CN trains that transited

the city last year. We are at maximum capacity at the centre, with three shifts per day, seven days a week, and we need to expand it to handle existing and forecast growth of intermodal, coal and other traffic in northern BC.”

CN will increase floor space at the Prince George locomotive shop by 50 per cent to nearly 50,000 square feet, permitting the addition of four repair bays with pits to handle the forecast increase in locomotive inspections and repairs.

But even before this announcement CN was investing to improve the efficiency of the line. This year the company is spending $47 million on the corridor between Prince Rupert and Prince George, including extending five sidings, and expects to invest another $67 million between 2013 and 2015.

“At any given time there are about 18 trains running on the tracks in BC North. We’ve been growing at about 20 per cent per annum over the past several years, and we expect

that growth to continue,” said Doug Ryhorchuk, CN’s general manager for BC North.

With that investment comes the need to hire more people. In 2011 CN hired 180 people between Prince Rupert and Prince George, and had hired 50 new staff in the first five months of 2012.

But it’s not just investment in the current line resulting from the opening of Fairview Terminal. In June CN announced a new import/export container service between Prince Rupert, Calgary and Edmonton.

“Alberta is a major growing economy and a fast growing

economy with a demand for a variety of products...We think that time is right to feed that market,” said CN communications director Mark Hallman.

As well as increasing linkage to Edmonton and Calgary, CN is spending $200 million on a new intermodal terminal in Calgary to handle containers coming from and going to Prince Rupert.

“This is going to be a significant undertaking for us and clearly represents a

major investment in serving the Alberta economy,” he said, adding that the facility will include room for distribution centres and two million square feet of warehouse space.

As one of the port partners in Fairview Terminal, investing $30 million into converting Fairview from a break-bulk to a container terminal, CN made a substantial investment and is now seeing growth in its business and its employee numbers as a result of the terminal operations.

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Fairview Terminal plays a major role for both the provincial and federal governments to access Asian markets, and both governments are taking steps to increase trade.


As Canadian exports to Asia continue to grow, with trade to

the Asia Pacific surpassing trade with America for the first time in 2011, the provincial and federal governments are continuing to take steps to promote trade with

China.On September 8 Prime

Minister Stephen Harper signed a trade agreement with Chinese president Hu Jintao, and on

September 10 Christy Clark announced plans for a new trade and investment office in Hong Kong to strengthen ties to China.

The new office will include the placement of a trade and investment representative, effective November, to attract new trade with the country.

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Editor’s note: Below is the story that

ran in the September 19, 2007 issue of the Prince Rupert Northern View, chronicling the opening ceremony for Fairview Terminal.

T h o u s a n d s of people from around the world made their way to Fairview Terminal on September 12 to mark the official grand opening of Prince Rupert’s new container terminal during two separate celebrations over the course of the day.

The first celebration was an invitation only event that kicked off at one p.m. and ran through to 3:30 p.m. and featured a guest list that was more than 600 strong and included Premier Gordon Campbell, Minister of International Trade and the Pacific Gateway David Emerson, Western Economic Diversification Minister Rona Ambrose, provincial Transportation Minister Kevin Falcon, Maher Terminals President and CEO Brian Maher, CN Executive vice-president Jim Foote, mayors from across the province, and representatives from the City of Chicago, the office of the Governor of Illinois, the China Ocean Shipping Company and the port of Ningbo in China.

Throughout the day, the various speakers didn’t hesitate to stress just how important the new facility was to the city, the province and North America as a whole.

“This is a very historic day for the city, but it is much, much bigger than just a container terminal in Prince Rupert. We are not just opening up a container terminal here in Prince Rupert. We are opening up a brand new transportation and trade corridor between Asia and North America,” said Port Authority president and CEO Don Krusel.

“Today we are opening phase one of what will be a many phase container terminal development facility on the Northwest coast …Everyone is going to benefit, the whole region. We are looking at 800 new jobs by the end of 2008, 2,200 direct and indirect jobs by the end of 2011 and this is just the beginning. It is the beginning of opening the North, it is the beginning of opening a corridor right through to the heart of Canada and it is transformative. It’s very exciting for me and it’s the equivalent of the St. Lawrence Seaway investment 50 years ago. I think in 20 or 30 years people in the province will look back and say ‘This was day one. This was the day it all started,’” added Premier Campbell.

Later that evening an estimated 7,000 people made their way to the facility for a public celebration that featured live entertainment, fireworks, games and activities for the kids and tours of HMCS Ottawa.

And while those who came out to both ceremonies recognized the significance of the phase one opening the prospect of future development was not far from the minds of anyone as talks around a phase two expansion, which would increase capacity to two million TEUs, continue.

“I’ve said many times that we are going to celebrate today and the tomorrow morning go right back to work. We have got to get phase two underway. Obviously the port is in the driver’s seat, and we will be the wind in their wings any way we can be, but we all need to work together as we did for phase one to get phase two done so the opportunities continue,” said Prince Rupert Mayor Herb Pond, who lead hundreds of people attending the public ceremony in a “phase two” chant directed at the government and industry leaders assembled on the stage.

“Because a lot of this comes under our authority we will look at alternative ways that phase two can be developed and make sure that there are no barriers to private investors coming in to put the infrastructure into the ground. We are not charging ahead wanting to put taxpayer’s money in to where the private sector will do the job, but we will certainly work with the development stakeholders and look at what we need to do. It may be money, it may not be money and more often it is more regulatory approvals that are needed,” noted Emerson.

With the opening now in the books the next major milestone for the port will be the arrival of the first container ship from COSCO shipping lines, which Maher Canada General Manager Mark Schepp said is scheduled to occur on October 31.


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While delegates from around the world came out to an afternoon of formal speeches and events to open the terminal, the evening was all about a party for the community. An estimated 7,000 people came out under bright blue skies, most leaving with a Maher Terminals hat to mark the occasion, and activities ranged from live music and naval ships to Lego port building, a visit from Charles Hays, face painting and more.


Having a terminal is not much good if you don’t have customers who will ship through it.

Fortunately for Fairview Terminal, that was never a concern. on May 14, 2007, a full five months before the ribbon was

cut and more than six months before the ANTWERP arrived on a stormy October night the China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) Container Lines signed a deal with CN Rail to use Fairview Terminal.

For more than eight months though, there was one ship per week calling on Fairview Terminal while those in

the workforce and involved in the port waited on securing more ships for Prince Rupert. Those concerns were addressed on June 18 when COSCO announced plans to bring a second shipping line to Prince Rupert that would bring bigger ships than those originally calling on Prince Rupert.

The second shipping line would make its first arrival in Prince Rupert on July 5, resulting in more traffic and more hours for the members of the ILWU who work on loading and unloading the ships.

Currently there are three services calling on Prince Rupert. They are the Pacific Northwest Hanjin Express, the South China US North Coast Express and the North China US Southwest Coast Express services and they are keeping a steady stream of ships coming.

As an example a quick look at the daily vessel report from the Prince Rupert Port

Authority for September 7 shows that COSCO Seattle departed on September 3, HANJIN Oslo departed on September 4 and COSCO Rotterdam departed on September 7. At the same time, COSCO Long Beach was scheduled to arrive on September 8 and HANJIN Mundra was scheduled to arrive on September 11.

According to Michael Gurney of the Prince Rupert Port Authority, there are an average of three ships calling on Fairview Terminal each week.


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Shortly after the ribbon was cut on phase one of Fairview Terminal, talk around the community turned to phase II of the Prince Rupert Port Authority’s plans for container movement in and out of the north coast.

And, in fact, it didn’t take long for the environmental assessment for phase II to get underway. According to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, the assessment commenced on March 11, 2008, which is just six months after the ribbon was cut on phase one.

The initial plans for phase II called for the terminal to be built out towards Ridley Island to quadruple the capacity of the terminal from the initial 500,000 TEUs up to a possible 2 million TEUs. The project would extend the wharf to 800 metres, achieve an 18 metre (59 feet) minimum water depth, increase the dock area to 56 hectares (139 acres), and quadruple to eight the number of post-panamax cranes. The expanded facility would have an on-site storage capacity of 28,560 TEUs at five high.

And while the expansion is still planned to the far end of the existing terminal, the latest filing with the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency shows a much different plan

for future expansion of Fairview Terminal.

Expansion will now take place in two phases. Phase one is expected to get underway once a commercial decision to proceed is made, which would be in late 2012 at the earliest, and it includes expanding the terminal north towards town – something that was not included in the 2009 submission to the agency – and the construction of a five kilometre road connecting Fairview Terminal to Ridley Island to allow truck traffic to bypass downtown. Phase two, which will not get underway until after 2015, although a decision to proceed with construction and build out of the southern expansion will depend on market conditions at that time, will expand the terminal south toward Ridley Island, but not to the same extent.

The end result is that the terrestrial portion of the terminal has been reduced from 33 hectares to 15.7 hectares and the amount of material to be disposed of at sea is reduced from 1.8 million cubic metres to just 180,000 cubic metres.

Another change from the 2009 submission is the number of ships calling on Prince Rupert and the number of trucks moving through the terminal. According to the report, when phase one of the expansion is complete there is projected to be 10 vessels per week

calling on Prince Rupert along with 1,570 truck movements while the second stage of the expansion could see up to 14 vessels per week and 2,500 truck movements per week.

To accommodate the increased vessel traffic the Prince Rupert Port Authority is planning to add an additional six cranes to the existing three currently at the terminal.

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Phase II is now expected to move toward town to start.


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