加拿大港口有哪些?
Canada, the world's second-largest country by total area and its tenth largest economy as of 2017. Canada contains much of North America’s arable land with abundant natural resources such as oil, natural gas, iron ore, gold and copper. It also has rich fresh water reserves which are highly prized for industry and consumption purposes in all areas of life from agriculture to recreation. A well-developed transport infrastructure links Canada closely to global markets despite being so far north. Its location between two huge oceans, coupled with an extensive network of rivers and lakes provides excellent port facilities at various points on its coastlines but mainly along the St Lawrence River in Quebec and Ontario. Most of these ports handle bulk cargoes. The most important one is Montreal Port, followed by Toronto Port、Halifax Port和Vancouver Port. These five large ports have been listed below:
Montreal Port(蒙特利尔港) Located in Montreal, QC (Quebec) province west of Ottawa city, it is Canadas biggest container transshipment centre and handles over half of canadian drybulk imports and exports. With three major terminals offering over twenty berths up to 350m in length, this port enjoys direct access to both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Saint Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes respectively and boasts an annual capacity of around nine million TEUs handling more than ten thousand vessels annually. In addition to containers, it accepts general cargoes like grain, wood products, coal, fertilisers and petroleum products together with cruise ships and ferries too. Facilities include warehousing space totalling some eleven hundred thousand square metres. The next phase of development will entail deepening existing channels and constructing new ones as part of the St. Lawrence Seaway Expansion project aimed at extending the seasonality of navigation from April until November to year round service. This should help increase tonnage handled here considerably although no firm figures have yet been released due to ongoing negotiations between Canadian