An investment of $25 million was announced to expand and improve operations at the port. The project, led by the Prince Rupert Port Authority, will improve and expand infrastructure at the Ridley Island Export Logistics Platform. The project which spans more than 28 hectares will create a platform to enhance the port’s capacity for transloading B.C. and western Canadian natural resource products for containerized export by sea to international markets.
Once built, the new platform will increase the port’s export transloading capacity from 75.000 twenty-foot equivalent units to over 400,000. The project will come with new and updated rail tracks as well as dedicated roadways to and from the Fairview Container Terminal.
The project is expected to create 200 jobs in transloading, and an additional 2,000 jobs in areas such as warehousing, longshore work and trucking.
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