5/9/2017
Rail News: Intermodal
The GCT Deltaport at Port Metro Vancouver late last week welcomed Hapag-Lloyd's Antwerpen Express, the largest container vessel to call on Canada, GCT Canada officials announced yesterday.
The 13,200 twenty-foot-equivalent-unit vessel has been deployed as part of Transport High Efficiency Alliance's Transpacific mainline West Coast PN3 service. GCT Deltaport was the vessel's first port-of-call directly from the Far East, according to a GCT Canada press release.
GCT Deltaport, which hosts the largest ships to arrive at the port, recently completed construction of its $280 million intermodal yard reconfiguration project to increase rail capacity by more than 50 percent.
The port is served by CN and Canadian Pacific.