Rival container terminal projects are causing friction at the Port of Vancouver.
The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority is promoting Roberts Bank Terminal 2 (RBT2), which would be the port’s fifth container terminal, and increase its capacity by 50 per cent.
Meanwhile, Global Container Terminals (GCT) wants to expand its existing GCT Deltaport terminal at Roberts Bank by building a fourth berth.
GCT Deltaport is already Canada’s largest container terminal.
The expansion would provide an additional two million 20-foot-long storage containers per year to the existing terminal.
RBT2 would add another 2.4 million containers by comparison.
GCT spent $180 million in 2010 adding the third berth to its Deltaport terminal.
However, it is a different story this time around with the proposed fourth berth, as the Port Authority won't even look at it.
