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The Port of Vancouver was the name
of the largest port in Canada, the
largest in the Pacific Northwest,
and the largest port on the West
Coast of North America by metric
tons of total cargo, with 76.5
million metric tons. The port
amalgamated with the Fraser River
Port Authority and the North Fraser
Port Authority in 2008 to form Port
Metro Vancouver.
In terms of container traffic
measured in twenty-foot equivalent
units (TEU), the port ranked in 2006
as the largest port in Canada, the
largest in the Pacific Northwest,
the fourth-largest port on the West
Coast of North America, and
fifth-largest in North America
overall.
The Port of Vancouver trades $43
billion in goods with more than 90
trading economies annually. The
Vancouver Fraser Port Authority is
the corporation responsible for
management of the port, which, in
addition to the city of Vancouver,
includes all of Burrard Inlet and
Roberts Bank Superport in Delta.
With the opening of the Panama Canal
in 1914, Vancouver’s seaport was
able to compete with the major
international ports for global trade
because it was positioned as an
alternative route to Europe. During
the 1920s, the provincial government
successfully fought to eliminate
freight rates that discriminated
against goods transported by rail
through the mountains, giving the
young lawyer of the case, future
Vancouver Mayor and Canadian
senator, Gerry McGeer, a reputation
as “the man who flattened the
Rockies.” Consequently, Prairie
wheat came west through Vancouver
rather than being shipped out
through eastern ports. The federal
government established the Harbour
Commission (forerunner to the Port
Authority) in the early 1920s to
oversee port development.
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