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In the port of Montreal a new container is inaugurated terminal
It has a annual ability to traffic pairs to 450 thousand teu that it will go up to 600 thousand
November 21, 2016
Friday in the port of Montreal is inaugurated the new container terminal in the Viau area that has a annual ability to traffic pairs to 450 thousand teu that the total ability to containerized trade of the Canadian harbour port of call to 2,1 million will be elevated to 600 thousand teu with the performance of the second phase of the project carrying teu.
The new terminal, realized with investments by the Canadian government and of the Harbour Authority of Montreal, is inaugurated by the minister of the Transports, Marc Garneau, and from the president and managing director of Port Authority di Montreal, Sylvie Vachon.
Vachon has emphasized that the new terminal of Viau will produce meaningful economic benefits for the region, the province and the nation Canadian pairs to 340 million dollars per year and will create direct and indirect 2.500 places of job. The president of the harbour authority has remembered that the project is yields of a collaboration between public and private organizations, between which the terminalista society Termont Montreal Inc. and the shipowning group Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) that - through the Terminal Investment Ltd. (TIL) - it participates to the same Termont.
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