Vancouver

January 17, 2015

Additional facts

  • shoreline managed by the port authority: 23 km

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

 Major terminals

Projects of interest

Habitat enhancement projects

Parks

Noise monitoring program

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 committees

The East Vancouver Port Lands Committee consists of representatives from the Burrardview Community Association, City of Vancouver, Canadian Pacific Rail, the port authority, and Viterra. The committee was developed to address compatibility issues between industrial and residential land uses in this area between Victoria Drive and the Second Narrows Bridge, as well as the adjacent Burrardview neighbourhood.

The South Shore Community Liaison Committee, established in 2019, engages the community on an ongoing basis about port-related activities on the South Shore of the Burrard Inlet. The committee is advisory in nature and is comprised of up to 18 people representing community, Indigenous, municipal, and port industry interests.

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 Vancouver:

  • Avalon Recovery Society – Free Counselling Expansion Project
  • BabyGoRound Helping Families Society- Baby Gear Distribution Program
  • Backpack Buddies
  • Bard on the Beach – Community Access Tickets Program
  • Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival – Bard Education Digital Programming
  • BCIT student awards
  • Bloom Group – Indigenous Peer Support Worker
  • Canada Place & Vancouver Fraser Port Authority – Canada Together
  • Canada Place & Vancouver Fraser Port Authority – Christmas at Canada Place
  • Canadian Int’l Dragon Boat Festival Society – Concord Pacific Dragon Boat Festival in Vancouver & Richmond
  • Chief Joe Mathias BC Aboriginal Scholarship Fund
  • Covenant House – Rights of Passage Program
  • Create Vancouver Society – Vancouver Winter Arts – A Winter Celebration – Convergence of Art & Technology in Public Spaces
  • Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre – Culture as Medicine: Holistic Healing & Rebuilding for Indigenous Women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
  • Dress for Success Vancouver – Helping Women Now
  • EYA Environmental Youth Alliance Society – Nature Stewards
  • Family Services of Greater Vancouver – Directions Youth Services Youth Pantry
  • Full Circle First Nations’ Performance Society – Talking Stick Festival
  • Georgia Strait Alliance – Clean Boating Education for Healthy Local Waters
  • Golden Spike Days Festival – Golden Spike Days
  • Greater Vancouver Food Bank – COVID-19 Relief Funding
  • Greater Vancouver International Film Festival – Vancouver International Film Festival
  • Indian Residential School Services Society – Project Neca?mat (Meaning One Heart, One Mind)
  • Italian Day Festival Society – Italian Day on the Drive
  • Japanese Community Volunteers Association – TG Friendship Circle
  • Kidsafe Project Society – Kidsafe COVID Relief Project
  • Liberation Concert and Celebration Committee
  • Mission Possible – Employment Readiness Program
  • Mothers Matter Centre – Urban Indigenous HIPPY Program in East Vancouver
  • Museum of Vancouver – That Which Sustains Us
  • Musqueam Indian Band – Musqueam National Indigenous People’s Day Celebration
  • Oceanwise – Mobile Education Program (Dome)
  • Oceanwise – Reforestation
  • Outward Bound Canada – Vancouver Urban Wild Indigenous Schools and Groups
  • Pacific Wildlife Foundation – Greater Vancouver Bird Week
  • PLEA Community Services Society – KidsStart Mentoring Program
  • Potluck Cafe – Community Meals Program
  • Power to Be Adventure Therapy Society – Vancouver Youth Programs
  • Radix Theatre Society – Passage
  • Raincoast Conservation Foundation – Salish Sea Emerging Stewards
  • Science World Society – Arctic Voices Exhibition
  • Sea Smart School Society – Ocean Explorer program
  • Sher Vancouver Emergence short films
  • Stanley Park Ecology Society – Let’s Go Birding Together
  • Stanley Park Ecology Society – Vancouver Bird Celebration
  • Strathcona Residents Association – Air Quality Monitoring Project
  • The Bloom Group Community Services Society – Transition Fund
  • The Canadian National Institute for the Blind – CNIB Vision Mate Program
  • The Vancouver Second Mile Society – Neighbourhood Helpers Chinese Outreach Project
  • The Writer’s Exchange Society
  • True Patriot Love Foundation – 2025 Invictus Games
  • Union Gospel Mission
  • United Way of Canada – Vancouver Fraser Port Authority Employer-Employee Matching Campaign
  • Vancouver Chinatown BIA – 22nd Chinatown Festival
  • Vancouver Chinatown Foundation for Community Revitalization – Light Up Chinatown!
  • Vancouver Symphony Orchestra – Day of Music
  • Vancouver Food Runners Society
  • Vancouver International Children’s Festival
  • Vancouver Maritime Museum Society – Children’s Area Upgrade Continuation
  • Vancouver Museum Society – MST Knowledge Repatriation Initiative (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations)
  • Wish Drop-in Centre Society
  • YMCA – Portside and Waterview Healthy Family
  • YWCA – Crabtree Corner Housing
  • YWCA Metro Vancouver – YWCA Circle of Sisters Indigenous Mentorship Program
  • Cetus Research & Conservation Society – Straitwatch Marine Stewardship Program

Along with our industry partners, we host an annual port gala supporting capital projects from three non-profit community organizations. The community organization we support in Vancouver is Mission Possible, helping those challenged by homelessness and poverty. Their organization is located in the Downtown Eastside.

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