Thank you.
In terms of the first question, we recognize very clearly that, as we said, this is bilateral trade; it must benefit both parties—the Europeans and the Canadians. So to that extent, we have to be out in the market building awareness and knowledge about supply chain efficiency using the port of Halifax to facilitate that trade.
You heard yesterday from the Halifax Gateway that we've done a recent trade mission, for example, to Europe on that, and we have a regular outreach in Europe. In fact, we have a business agent in Europe who we've had for the last number of years. Personally, I and other members of the business development team are frequently in Europe working on that. That's half the equation.
The other half of the equation is, of course, the domestic Canadian knowledge and awareness. Approximately two months ago, we had a gateway session in Toronto itself, and as I alluded to before, in many respects we consider ourselves to be that port of Toronto in terms of accessibility for major areas for importers and exporters in this country.
We had exactly the same type of concept. We're inviting the freight forwarders, third-party logistics operators, manufacturers, importers, and exporters to these information sessions, where we, in conjunction with entities like CN Rail, Nova Scotia Business Inc., and the Halifax international airport, talk specifically about the supply chain that we offer to shippers, how that can be advantageous to them, and establish that connectivity so that when they have questions they need to drill down into, they know who to speak to, and we follow up with them on a consistent basis about how we can do that.
We also take very keen statistical databases with us wherever we go and develop those. We drill down into, for example, exporters and importers over the port on a commodity basis, on a tonnage basis, so we get very detailed shipping profiles, and again follow up with companies like that. We also invite major Canadian companies, such as Canadian Tire, to participate in some of our major trade events. For example, the Port Days event celebrates the port of Halifax on an annual basis. In past years, you will have seen major Canadian enterprises like Canadian Tire as the keynote speaker. This particular year, CN was the keynote speaker at Port Days.
So it's very much an integrated strategy, encompassing the fact that we have to be active on two complementary markets—the Canadian market and the overseas market in Europe—to promote and accelerate the opportunities around CETA.
In terms of infrastructure, as I alluded to earlier, we're just on the cusp of completing $110 million.... Over the last number of years, we've kept a running tally of all the infrastructure in the port of Halifax. We plow back in much of the revenue we generate through the operation of the port of Halifax, as the port authority, because we recognize we have to have top-quality infrastructure in the port to support this supply chain. That's why we built out both container terminals over the last number of years; that's why we're building this multi-purpose break-bulk terminal.
We've put money in the Halifax grain elevator, for example, to build a tip-and-load facility, which is nothing more than the opportunity to take soybeans from Prince Edward Island, bring them by truck into Halifax, have those converted from truck into the 20-foot containers we have on the trade lane surplus that's created here, and then ship those out to countries that are particularly well-suited towards containerized Canadian agri-exports. In this particular case, it was 10,000 tonnes of P.E.I. soybeans going to Indonesia. That type of project is first and foremost what we do in our business planning. We identify both the market opportunities in the business, as well as the infrastructure needs and demands.
We've just recently completed another couple of upgrades as well.
