Advantages
The Port of Halifax is ready to meet - and exceed - your needs. Here's what we have to offer:
Well supported
- Two modern container terminals with twelve gantry cranes
- Five cranes that can accommodate post-Panamax vessels
- A naturally deep harbour, with container berths in the range of 45 to 55 feet.
- Ice-free port with minimal tides and no currents
- Advanced and comprehensive EDI system
- Excellent landbridge opportunities to the U.S. and western Canada
Well placed
- Large volume of locally based reefer traffic for export
- Skilled, stable, productive workforce
- First inbound port and last outbound port on the North American continent enabling shortest ocean voyage for ships operating on the North Atlantic, pendulum services, and Suez routings
- Strategically located near major shipping lanes
- Halifax is one day closer to Southeast Asia (via Suez) than any other East Coast container port
Well priced
- Internationally competitive bunker fuel prices
- No cabotage restrictions for transshipment to US
- No harbour maintenance tax or dredging-related assessments
Well connected
- More than 20 direct liner services
- Excellent intermodal rail, truck, water, and air connections
- On-dock rail service offering daily double-stacked departures to and from Montreal, Toronto and the US Midwest
- Excellent highway connections to all inland points in Canada and the US
- Direct and connecting air freight and passenger services to all national and international destinations through Halifax International Airport
