When we examined our business case for the federal and provincial governments to consider, we talked about competition in the markets we tend to focus on. We feel that the amount of cargo that moves into Canada via U.S. ports provides a unique opportunity for us. We have strong ports in eastern Canada, such as Halifax, Quebec, Montreal, Saguenay, Trois-Rivières, and Sept-Îles. The different ports in the eastern part of our country are well situated to accommodate different competitive forces.
Here in New Brunswick, we have two ports, the port of Belledune in our northern part, and in the southern part we have the port of Saint John. The port of Belledune concentrates on things like wood pallets, coal, aggregate cargoes, fabrication, things of that nature. We focus more on products that are historically traded through this port, such as wood products, oil products, and containers. We are the only container port in New Brunswick .
We tried to assess the strength of our port 50 years ago, in order to see where that strength had one and how to get it back. We're still in close proximity to those large marketplaces in New England and central Canada. We talked about how to move things in a more efficient way, particularly in the north-south corridors. We considered how to build other opportunities to take advantage of congestion in other ports and the location of distribution centres.
I don't think it's any secret for those who live in Atlantic Canada that if you're driving down to, say, Boston, there is an increased amount of traffic year by year. You used to be almost to Boston before you ran into heavy traffic, but now the congestion is very evident. There have been lots of studies done. The North America study done on the movement of goods within the eastern seaboard of the U.S. and beyond shows that the congestion is only going to grow.
We look at those cargoes to see how we can—