It's too bad the port isn't here to answer some of these questions.
Getting to the terminals can be a bit of an issue because they have the passenger train traffic and the bridge to go across. If a pleasure craft goes through, they have to raise it. There are a lot of issues with movement and getting it to the terminal.
As far as the port goes.... I am not an expert on this, but we were talking about rain. It rains in Vancouver all the time. You can't believe that over the years they haven't developed a system so that they could load in the rain. Any time there is a delay it just goes up the whole stream back to the farmer. You can only ship what you can ship and if it gets delayed somewhere, you're done shipping it until it gets cleared up.