Vanterm
{{Short description|Container terminal in Vancouver,}}
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Vanterm is a container terminal in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is located on the south shore of the Burrard Inlet in Vancouver's East Side. It is operated by GCT Canada, a Vancouver-based company which also operates Deltaport another container terminal at the Port of Vancouver. Vanterm has a 619-metre (2,030 ft) berth with a depth of 15.5 metres, six ship-to-shore cranes, and is directly served by both Canadian Class 1 Railways, CN and CPKC. ILWU Local 500 and 514 make up the majority of the labour force.{{Cite web |date=2015-03-24 |title=Cargo and Terminals, Container |url=https://www.portvancouver.com/cargo-terminals/container/ |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=Port of Vancouver |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=GCT Vanterm |url=https://globalterminalscanada.com/gct-vanterm/ |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=GCT Canada |language=en-US}}
History
LaPointe Pier, now only a small part of the modern terminal, had its first container ship, the M.S. Axel Johnson, call its berth in 1969.{{Cite web |title=GCT marks Vancouver container-shipping milestone |url=https://biv.com/article/2019/07/gct-marks-vancouver-container-shipping-milestone |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=Business in Vancouver |language=en}} Vanterm was inaugurated as a container terminal in 1975Forward, Charles N. “The Development of Canada’s Five Leading National Ports.” Urban History Review / Revue d’histoire Urbaine 10, no. 3 (1982): 25–45. {{JSTOR|43561664}}. and run by Empire Stevedoring and later TSI Terminal Systems Inc. which rebranded to GCT Global Container Terminals.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}
A $160 million investment in 2019 upgraded terminal infrastructure, software, and equipment, including the acquisition of two modern ship-to-shore cranes, ten rubber tired gantry cranes, and 19 empty container handlers to increase its annual throughout capacity from 835,000 to 1 million TEUs.{{Cite web |title=GCT Global Container Terminals to invest $160 million in Vanterm |url=https://biv.com/article/2019/05/gct-global-container-terminals-invest-160-million-vanterm |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=Business in Vancouver |language=en}}
On January 28, 2019, the vessel Ever Summit struck the dock while berthing, causing damage to the vessel, berth, and a gantry crane. There were no injuries.{{Cite web |last=Government of Canada |first=Transportation Safety Board of Canada |date=2020-11-05 |title=Marine Transportation Safety Investigation Report m19p0020 |url=https://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/marine/2019/m19p0020/m19p0020.html |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=www.tsb.gc.ca}}
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