Despite cargo volumes at most of the West Coast ports turning decidedly weak over the past several months, one port has numbers to boast about. Unfortunately for United States West Coast ports, it happens to be the Port of Prince Rupert in British Columbia, Canada.
The port, located about 500 miles north of Vancouver, Canada and which opened it first major container terminal just four years ago, handled a total of 46,433 TEUs In July, a 20.3 percent increase over July 2010.
On the import side, the Prince Rupert Port Authority reported handling a total of 26,044 loaded inbound TEUs in July, a sizable 18 percent increase over the year-ago period.
Even more significant were the port's export numbers for the month. The port handled a total of 10,543 loaded outbound TEUs in July, a massive 94.5 percent increase over the same month last year.
In May, the port added two new services – one by China Ocean Shipping Co. and one by Hanjin – to bring the total number of services calling at the port's Prince Rupert Container Terminal to four.
While the calendar year total of 198,217 TEUs handled only puts the port up 1 percent over the first seven months of 2010, the port's loaded TEU volumes for the January to July period are up a solid 16.5 percent over the same period last year.
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Prince Rupert to Double Weekly Ship Calls
New services being added by ocean carriers COSCO and Hanjin in May will boost weekly calls at the Canadian West Coast port of Prince Rupert by 50 percent.
COSCO and Hanjin have announced they will add additional weekly call each to the port, raising the number of weekly calls at Prince Rupert from two to four. The port is currently being served by the CKYH Alliance (COSCON, K-Line, Yang Ming, and Hanjin) mainly under the COSCON banner.
Starting in early May, COSCO will replace the Port of Oakland on its five vessel transpacific South China Express service (SEA) with the Prince Rupert port as the last call on the West Coast.
Also starting in early May, Hanjin will add Prince Rupert to its transpacific Pacific Northwest North Express service (PNN), with Prince Rupert being the first West Coast call inbound from Asia.
Opened in late 2007, the port's single container terminal handled about 340,000 TEUs last year with two weekly ship calls and has an estimated maximum capacity of about 500,000 TEUs per year. The Canadian National Railway offers an express 90-hour double-stacked intermodal service between the Prince Rupert terminal and Chicago.
COSCO and Hanjin have announced they will add additional weekly call each to the port, raising the number of weekly calls at Prince Rupert from two to four. The port is currently being served by the CKYH Alliance (COSCON, K-Line, Yang Ming, and Hanjin) mainly under the COSCON banner.
Starting in early May, COSCO will replace the Port of Oakland on its five vessel transpacific South China Express service (SEA) with the Prince Rupert port as the last call on the West Coast.
Also starting in early May, Hanjin will add Prince Rupert to its transpacific Pacific Northwest North Express service (PNN), with Prince Rupert being the first West Coast call inbound from Asia.
Opened in late 2007, the port's single container terminal handled about 340,000 TEUs last year with two weekly ship calls and has an estimated maximum capacity of about 500,000 TEUs per year. The Canadian National Railway offers an express 90-hour double-stacked intermodal service between the Prince Rupert terminal and Chicago.
