International Trade committee  Good morning, everyone. I certainly appreciate the opportunity to appear before the committee, at least through technology.

International Trade committee  Okay, I'll try to be as brief as possible. As members of the committee are aware, Port Saint John, also known as the Saint John Port Authority, is located on the Bay of Fundy and the southern coast of New Brunswick. Port Saint John provides a gateway into North America for marit

International Trade committee  We're doing both, actually. We have Canada's largest refinery here, Irving Oil. Primarily we're importing crude oil, and then we're exporting refined petroleum products. We also have an LNG terminal, where we're importing LNG. Our tonnage of petroleum products makes up a huge por

International Trade committee  Yes, we did have quite a major hit with the mine closure, and we expect that at some point it will reopen. But we had a record year of exports last year, as you are aware, and that was rail from Saskatchewan. The biggest market would be Brazil, but certainly Latin America, throug

International Trade committee  It's difficult to say. We really look at the whole bloc of Latin America in total. Two of the countries that we're discussing today are accessible from both east and west coasts. The other two are accessible through the Panama Canal or around the southern tip of South America. W

International Trade committee  Yes. On the whole, we need all of our market sectors and we need everything to be running on eight cylinders. We have a huge modernization project with the container terminal, and we're investing $205 million, along with our partners in the federal and provincial governments. I

International Trade committee  No, we would be restricted. There would always be some import and export activity, even with tariffs and other obstructions to trade, if you like, but a trade deal, and free trade, and so on only serve to open up those channels. We always see, when these trade deals are successfu

International Trade committee  We are, yes.

International Trade committee  Yes, they are ILA.

International Trade committee  Specifically, first of all, with respect to rail, we have a great connection through New Brunswick Southern Railway, which is the rail line that purchased, about 20 years ago, a short-line from CP. Through New Brunswick Southern we connect right in Saint John with CN Rail, and up

International Trade committee  With respect to trucking we have some major carriers in New Brunswick, and then some smaller ones as well. This is the home to Day & Ross, Midland, Sunbury. We have other small carriers like Blacks Transfer, for instance, that do a lot of work within New Brunswick to the port

International Trade committee  Yes, that's a great question. A lot of the time people will think, Saskatchewan is basically on the west coast, so you'd ship out of the west coast. In fact, it's still quite a distance to go through either Canadian or U.S. ports on the west coast. In shipping to the east coast,

International Trade committee  As a pre-qualifier first, our VP of operations and harbour master Captain Chris Hall would be the one most qualified to answer that question, but while this issue has been very newsworthy lately with the unfortunate realities of what's happening with right whale deaths, this has

International Trade committee  We have a very strong relationship with CBSA, the Canada Border Services Agency, here in Saint John. There are several initiatives that we work on together. They're on site as almost an employee and an operator within the port, with some very sophisticated equipment for detection

International Trade committee  Yes. In conjunction with the growth and the modernization of our WestSide terminals, we are taking a very targeted approach to specific commodity groups that we know are exported from central Canada or imported to central Canada from the Latin American countries. We've always be