Business View Magazine | October 2019

265 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE OCTOBER 2019 PORT COLBORNE , ONTAR IO a lot more goods being shipped across the Great Lakes. And what will happen is they’ll deliver large amounts of goods to a destination, so the trucking or train portion is a lot shorter. And that, in turn, helps with climate change and environmental concerns, as part and parcel of the whole increase in shipping.” Port Colborne has two major dock operators and they’re thriving. One, Port Colborne Marine Terminal (formerly Snyder Services), is partnered with Quebec Stevedoring and has interests in Port Colborne and Port Weller in St. Catharines. The other company, Rankin Construction, has a partnership with Logistech. They have an interesting business – working with a container service running a small container ship called the Cleveland Europe Express out of Antwerp, Belgium. It stops at Port Colborne and drops off containers of goods that people have ordered. Then it goes across Lake Erie to Cleveland, empties the rest of its shipment and picks up other goods. On the return trip to Belgium, it picks up more goods at Port Colborne – a two-week turnaround time, highways roads and parking lots bridges, structures and pile driving canals marine and environmental wind turbines hydro generation radioactive waste remediation subdivisions sewers and watermains industrial and commercial design-build and engineering C O N S T R U C T I O N www.rankinconstruction.ca