North Vancouver (City)

Additional facts

• shoreline managed by the port authority: 7 km

Learn more about the Port of Vancouver’s economic impact.

Major terminals

• Neptune is North America’s largest multi-product bulk terminal. It handles metallurgical (steel-making) coal, potash, and imported phosphate rock.
• Lynnterm serves as a consolidation centre for forest products, steel and breakbulk in the Pacific Northwest. It handles wood pulp and paper, lumber, panel products, logs, steel products, project cargo and machinery.
• Cargill is a grain terminal handling wheat, durum, canola, barley and grain by-products.
• Richardson International is a major exporter of canola and cereal grains to trading economies along the Pacific Rim. It handles wheat, canola, barley, rye, flax, grain and feed products

Projects of interest

• Kings Mill Park Shoreline and Habitat Work – City of North Vancouver
• Dumper 2 Potash Replacement – Neptune Bulk Terminals
• Seaspan Vancouver Drydock Water Lot Expansion – Vancouver Drydock Company Ltd. Partnership
• Noise monitoring: Our noise monitoring program helps us to gain a better understanding of the existing noise environment, identify where there might be concerns and track noise trends over the long-term

Liaison committee

The North Shore Waterfront Liaison Committee is a collaborative forum where community, Indigenous, municipal, industry and Vancouver Fraser Port Authority representatives meet to share information, ask questions, identify concerns and provide input on port projects and activities.

Community investment

Through our community investment program, we support community events, projects and initiatives throughout the Lower Mainland. We are proud to have contributed to the following in the City of North Vancouver:

• MONOVA – MONOVA Create and Connect Series
• North Shore Streamkeepers – Wagg Creek Water Quality Monitoring Initiative
• Friends of the North Vancouver Museum and Archives Society – The Working Waterfront
• Harvest Project – A place to call home
• MRG Events – Shipyards Festival
• Polygon Gallery – Kids First Saturday
• Rotary Club of Lions Gate – North Vancouver Canada Day
• Seymour River Estuary – The Seymour Salmonid Society
• Squamish First Nation – Day of Healing
• TREC Charitable Foundation – Relay Education’s Kids World of Energy
• Tsleil-Waututh Nation – 2020 Whey-ah-Wichen Canoe Race Festival
• Tsleil-Waututh Nation – Burrard Inlet and Indian Arm Winter Waterbird Survey
• Wild Bird Trust of BC – Leonard George Memorial Walk and Coast Salish Garden

Additional resources

• Topics of interest
• PortTV