Port of Montreal looks at logistics cluster

MM&D MAGAZINE, MARCH/APRIL 2011

The Port of Montreal has established an interim committee to look at the possibility of establishing a logistics and transportation cluster. Sylvie Vachon, the port’s president and CEO, is chairing the committee. Vachon says the initiative confirms Montreal and its port as a transportation hub.

“Creating this industrial cluster fosters the inception of promising projects for Greater Montreal,” she said.

Vachon noted projects underway on Port of Montreal territory will make it possible to raise the annual maximum container handling capacity from 1.6 million to two million containers by 2016.

As well, in 2010 the port completed technical studies on its Contrecoeur site, where it could expand in the future. This project could bring the port’s maximum container capacity to more than three million containers by 2018.