Port Metro Vancouver

The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority is responsible for the stewardship of federal port lands in and around Vancouver, British Columbia. Like all Canada Port Authorities, the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority is established by the Government of Canada pursuant to the Canada Marine Act, and accountable to the federal Minister of Transport. Our mandate is to facilitate CanadaÕs trade objectives, ensuring goods are moved safely, while protecting the environment and considering local communities. The Port of Vancouver is CanadaÕs largest, supporting close to one in every five dollars of trade in goods that flow through our country and offering the broadest range of cargo-handling options of any port in North America. Positioned on the southwest coast of British Columbia in Canada, the Port of Vancouver extends from Roberts Bank and the Fraser River up to and including Burrard Inlet. The port authority manages over 16,000 hectares of water, more than 1,000 hectares of land and approximately 350 kilometres of shoreline. We border 16 municipalities and intersect the asserted and established traditional territories and treaty lands of several Coast Salish First Nations. The Port of Vancouver is the third largest port in North America in terms of total tonnage moved in and out of the port. WeÕre home to 27 major marine cargo terminals, three Class 1 railroads, and a full range of facilities and services to the international shipping community. As the most diversified port in North America, we operate across five business sectors: automobiles, breakbulk, bulk, container and cruise. The port facilitates trade with more than 170 world economies, and handled 138 million tonnes of cargo in 2015 valued at $200 billion. Almost 95 per cent of the portÕs total volume serves Canadian import and export markets.