Forest Products Export Terminals in Canada
Some of the largest forest products transload facilities are listed in Exhibit 1. There are eight large lumber and panel board transloading facilities mostly in Surrey and Richmond. Each of the terminals seems to serve one or two major forest companies as well as other smaller companies. Most receive lumber and panel board by truck.
Exhibit 1 Forest products export facilities in British Columbia
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Container Yard |
Owner |
Customers |
Shipping Company |
1,000 TEUs/y |
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Pulp, paper & waste paper |
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Catalyst Paper, Surrey |
Catalyst |
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50 |
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Coast 2000, Richmond |
SSAM |
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OOCL |
40 |
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Eurasia, Burnaby |
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30 |
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TMS, Surrey |
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|
|
20 |
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Other- pulp & paper mills in BC, Alberta & Sask. |
|
200 |
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Subtotal |
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|
|
340 |
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Lumber |
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Westran Richmond |
Ferraro |
W Fraser, Weyerhaeuser |
OOCL,K-L |
35 |
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Portside, Richmond |
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Canfor |
MOL, NYK |
30 |
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Apex, Surrey |
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W Fraser, Tolko, Gorman |
Mitsui, NYK |
25 |
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S Fraser Container, Surrey |
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Dunkley, Tolko, Carrier |
OOCL |
20 |
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Canaam Group, Richmond |
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F Coop, Abitibi, Downie |
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15 |
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Annacis Reload, New West |
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Tolko, Dunkley, Adams L. |
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10 |
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Pac Gateway, Richmond |
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Pope & Talbot, WG, WFP |
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10 |
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S&R, Langley |
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Weyerhaeuser |
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10 |
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Lynterm, North Vancouver |
SSAM |
Canfor, Tolko, Interfor |
NYK, K-Line |
5 |
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Downie, Richmond |
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WFP, Canfor, TW |
OOCL |
5 |
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Tower Transload |
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Canfor |
|
5 |
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Other |
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20 |
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Subtotal |
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190 |
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Total |
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530 |
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The largest transload terminal, the Surrey-based Westran Intermodal, was established in 1983 to provide BC mills access to BNSF Rail. Their main clients are West Fraser, Weyerhaeuser, Aspen Planers, Abitibi Consolidated and Dunkley Lumber. Westran has 14,000 square meters of warehouse space for pulp, panel board and lumber sheds, a Web based customer inventory and shipping information system and more than 200 rail cars most with Westran’s own patented design.
Almost equal in size to Westran is the Richmond-based Portside Terminal, an affiliate of Canfor, BC’s largest forest products company. Container shippers from this terminal include Zim, Hanjin, and American President Line. Portside terminal is also used for bulk rail shipments to the US. Canaam, South Fraser Container and Apex are three other major lumber transload terminals. Canaam receives lumber and plywood by truck and puts it into their own international containers. Their customers include Downie Timber, Federated Coop, Wood Ex, Abitibi Consolidated, Canfor, and Dunkley Lumber. South Fraser Container Terminal has a 5 acre site, many BC customers and at least one US customer, Patrick Lumber in Portland, OR.
Catalyst Paper exports pulp and is also the largest paper exporter from Vancouver. They have a 30 bay 80,000 square meter warehouse in Surrey for loading trucks bound for the US and international shipping containers for Asia. Catalyst uses its own containers made by ISC, Triton, and GVC rather than ones owned by an international shipping company. Pulp and paper are transloaded by Catalyst Paper, Coast 2000 in Richmond, and Eurasia, in Burnaby. Eurasia receives pulp from mills in BC, Alberta and Saskatchewan and stores it in a 28,000 square meter warehouse. A maximum of 25 tonnes is put into a 40-foot container. Some of the contracts are with the pulp manufacturers, others are with brokers or shipping lines.
Some of the other sources of containerized pulp and paper are the inland mills located in Prince George, Quesnel, Kamloops, Castlegar, Crestbrook, Chetwynd, Taylor, and MacKenzie, BC and Grande Prairie, Hinton, Slave Lake, Whitecourt, Peace River, and Athabasca, Alberta, and Prince Albert and Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan. There are several paper recyclers in Metro Vancouver that export in containers.