Making Biggest Bigger: Port Metro Vancouver’s 21st Century Re-Structuring – Global Meets Local at the Asia Pacific Gateway

Authors

  • Kevin Ginnell SFU
  • Patrick Smith SFU
  • H. Peter Oberlander

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24124/c677/2008101

Keywords:

ports, transportation, shipping

Abstract

Vancouver’s Port is Canada’s biggest. On January 1, 2008, it got bigger - restructuring the Port of Vancouver, the Fraser River Port Authority and the North Fraser Port Authority, into a single Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, marketed (as of June, 2008) as Port Metro Vancouver. This new entity was the culmination of a process of divestiture, re-organizational adjustment, shift to market orientation and consolidation that has played out over several decades across Canada’s ports. This article examines some of this recent history – both in terms of (i) divestiture and increased market orientation and (ii) more recently, major port consolidation - and governmental responses to ensure Vancouver remains Canada’s busiest port and a central part of the country’s Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative. (APGCI)

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How to Cite

Ginnell, K., Smith, P., & Oberlander, H. P. (2008). Making Biggest Bigger: Port Metro Vancouver’s 21st Century Re-Structuring – Global Meets Local at the Asia Pacific Gateway. Canadian Political Science Review, 2(4), 76–92. https://doi.org/10.24124/c677/2008101