Transport committee  On the island of Montreal, the territory that's under our jurisdiction, we used to have what we called the Old Port of Montreal. That was under our jurisdiction. At the end of the 1980s we retroceded that territory to the Société du Vieux-Port to develop the recreation tourist pa

Transport committee  In November 2016, we implemented our fourth container terminal—the Viau Terminal. That was a three-part project. We received funding from the new Building Canada fund to set up the container terminal, to strengthen our docks in order to accommodate post-Panamax vessels, and to bu

Transport committee  That has always been done along Souligny Avenue.

Transport committee  The answer is no. Allow me to elaborate.

Transport committee  Obviously, to create a new container terminal at Contrecoeur, a dock needs to be cast and connected to the St. Lawrence ship channel. The river will need to be deepened to set up the approach area to the dock. That is the only dredging that will be done to expand the port of Mont

Transport committee  We currently have four terminals for international containers on Montreal Island. At optimal capacity, that enables us to receive 2.1 million TEU containers. Last year, we received 1.6 million containers. In 2016, we created the fourth and last container terminal we can develop o

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Iacono. Thank you for supporting us and allowing us to appear before the committee. We clearly need to have the capacity and the port space needed to accommodate more vessels and containers or to have more cargo coming and going. In fact, the Port of Montreal is

Transport committee  Thank you very much. Madam Chair, ladies and gentlemen members of the committee, hello and thank you for having us this morning. The Montreal Port Authority, or the MPA, also referred to as the Port of Montreal is Canada's second largest port and a diversified transshipment cen