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Friday, January 17, 2003 Domestic and international shipping2001 (preliminary)Canadian ports handled 393.0 million metric tonnes of cargo in 2001; down 2.4% from 402.8 million tonnes in 2000. International activity showed a strong 6.0% growth in cargoes arriving from foreign origins and totalled 112.3 million tonnes. Increased shipments of foreign crude petroleum into Halifax and Saint John, as well as coal arriving at Nanticoke from US Great Lakes ports, drove the increase. Cargoes departing to foreign destinations dropped 7.2% to 174.3 million tonnes in 2001. Reductions in iron ores and concentrates shipments and west coast coal shipments to Japan were partly offset by increases in tonnage for fuel oils, gasoline and aviation turbo fuel and stone, sand, gravel and crushed stone. Domestic activity totalled 106.4 million tonnes, down 2.4% from 2000. The ports of Vancouver, Saint John and Port Hawkesbury were the top three ports in total tonnage handled in 2001. For more information, or to enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Jean-Robert Larocque (613-951-2486; fax: 613-951-0009; laroque@statcan.gc.ca), Transportation Division. [an error occurred while processing this directive] |
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