Come visit the Vancouver Port Authority's new Interpretive Centre!

• Container kiosk: test your hand eye co-ordination and load containers onto a ship using this touch-screen/joystick game about containers and how they are transported!
• Connections kiosk: do you know what countries we ship grain to? What about lumber? Did you know we ship over 24 Million tons of Coal? Load up a ship with one of Canada's export commodities and use the touch screen to guide it to it's destination in this game about our Bulk commodities. Watch out for the sea monster!
• History Kiosk: Did you know that our first shipment of lumber was to Australia in 1864? Did you know that Canada was the first country to create the idea of containers in ocean shipping? Learn more about the port's history through three key time periods in this time lapse video collage.
• Business Sector Videos: There are three giant video screens that each tell a story about one of our business sectors through a video and word montage. Learn about Vancouver's Alaska Cruise, or about our Bulk and Breakbulk industry and its importance to Canada as a whole, or about Containers and how many running shoes fit in one container! The videos play sounds from real terminals so you can feel as if you were standing right at a terminal watching a giant crane stretch twenty-two containers wide across a ship to load a container.
• Wall Map: As soon as you enter the interpretive centre you see a giant wall map of the Burrard inlet. This map spans the 233 km of coast line and 276 km of navigable water that the Port has jurisdiction over. It labels the major rail lines and terminals along the Port as well as each of our bordering municipalities. Can you point out where you live or where your business is?
• Presentation Centre and MUCH more: there is SO much to see and learn about the Port of Vancouver … we would love to talk to you about your interests in the business, history or environment of the Port of Vancouver. Please contact us to find out about booking your presentation.