250px Centerm is short for Centennial Terminals, a major

container port A container port, container terminal, or intermodal terminal is a facility where cargo containers are transshipped between different transport vehicles, for onward transportation. The transshipment may be between container ships and land v ...

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, Canada. It is located on the south shore of the

Burrard Inlet Burrard Inlet () is a shallow-sided fjord in the northwestern Lower Mainland, British Columbia, Canada. Formed during the last Ice Age, it separates the City of Vancouver and the rest of the lowland Burrard Peninsula to the south from the coa ...

in Vancouver's

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neighbourhood. It is one of four container terminals at the Port of Vancouver, the others being Vanterm, Deltaport, and Fraser Surrey Docks. The terminal has two berths with a total length of 647 metres and depth of 15.5 metres, seven ship-to-shore cranes, and is directly served by both Canadian Class 1 Railways, CN and CPKC. ILWU Local 500 and 514 make up the majority of the labour force

History

Building rubble was dumped on the foreshore at Main Street and a peninsula where the

Hastings Mill Hastings Mill was a sawmill on the south shore of Burrard Inlet and was the first commercial operation around which the settlement that would become Vancouver developed in British Columbia, Canada. Founded in 1865 by Captain Edward Stamp, Edward S ...

once sat and a massive terminal was created at the behest of Barney Johnson with Federal money in 1958, hence the Centennial Year and name (British Columbia's 100's birthday). Centerm was operated by Canadian Stevedoring and subsidiary Casco Terminals for much of its history. It experienced a series of acquisitions beginning in the 1990s, and has been operated by DP World Canada, a subsidiary of the

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based

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since 2006. A $350 million expansion project completed in Spring 2023 added 15% to the terminal footprint and increased its annual throughout capacity from 900,000 to 1.5 million TEUs.

References

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