Transport committee  I can't speak to it.

Transport committee  No.

Transport committee  No, not at all. It was viewed as a competitive factor for the port of Montreal. Since then, it has been put up for sale now, and as we expected, it was a tough sell. Regarding Contrecoeur, which is why we're going there, one of the big things people have to realize is that it's

Transport committee  If you look at Montreal historically, the port of Montreal has always been a major gateway into the U.S. Midwest. When you look at our European business, roughly 30% of all the business that transits between Europe and Montreal into the Midwest goes through the port of Montreal.

Transport committee  To that point, I'll just give you a bit of background. We worked on a pilot project. We were looking at sending eight ships into Monroe, Michigan, before the closure of the seaway. This would have been a novel idea. We met with the exporter and we met with all the stakeholders an

Transport committee  To answer your first question in terms of trade corridors, a lot of the work that we're doing today to eliminate those congestion points or bottlenecks.... I was saying earlier that when we have ships that come in at about 4,000 containers, they get discharged at once, so you can

Transport committee  What's really important in port study—and it's not just Montreal; it's most ports—in our case we're dealing with a standard vessel with roughly 4,500 containers. What makes us distinct from other ports on the east coast, or even on the west coast, is that when a vessel comes into

Transport committee  All container ships operate at a capacity of about 85%; that is the standard. No vessel enters the port at 100% of its capacity. The capacity of vessels that arrive in the port of Montreal is between 1,800 TEUs and 4,500 TEUs. Container ships operate at a capacity of 80% or 85%.

Transport committee  If you're referring to dwell times in terms of when vessels stay, on average we have roughly two days of dwell, by rail or by truck. We had some difficulties in the first part of the year because of the surge in business we received. As a result of that, the partners got togeth

Transport committee  Thank you, Sophie. Good morning, everyone. With regard to healthy infrastructure, all port authorities share the huge challenge of maintaining and optimizing aging infrastructure. Maintaining docks and piers, optimizing our rail network and direct road access to the port, and