North Vancouver, BC: Neptune Bulk Terminals

(Satellite)

It appears that North Vancouver is more than willing to take the port business that the NIMBYers in Oregon and Washington don't want. I guess if you have Boing, Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks, etc., the powers-that-be don't want "dirty" industries. A major investment was also done in North Vancouver to expand their grain export capacity.

PNR RailWorks photo

At Neptune Terminals, one of North America’s largest multi-product bulk terminals, PNR RailWorks installed an innovative embedded rail system to minimize point loads on the track. Learn more about this project: https://www.railworks.com/projects/neptune-terminals

"one of North America’s largest multi-product bulk terminals"

[I wonder if that blue $45m stacker-reclaimer was made in South Korea, China or Germany. I've noticed that Japan seems to have joined the USA in terms of loosing the big-iron manufacture competition.]

Since the PNR work was completed in 2013, these relatively recent photos are of the new equipment.

Jacob Moffatt, Aug 2019

Roger Peterson, Feb 2018

Roger Peterson, Feb 2018

The port can load a ship with two conveyor lines.

Mariner, Mar 2016

I could not find a photo with the conveyors extended for loading.

G griffin.beale, Jun 2020

But a satellite image caught them extended.

Satellite

In fact, they have two pairs of loading conveyors. The above seems to be dedicated to exporting coal whereas the following appears to be for loading products that have to be stored indoors.

Satellite

They have a third dock that appears to support unloading ships (imports).

Satellite

Is this photo actually of the G3 terminal that is east of this terminal?

C M, Jun 2018

I used Google Earth to get more images of boats loading and unloading at the docks. There were a lot more images than I normally see. This is a sample of the images I looked at, and I looked at a small number of what is available. All of these images are from 2017. I learned from these images that the southeast dock can be used for loading as well as unloading. But it can load with just one conveyor belt.

Aug 9

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Oct 27