British Columbia is North America’s natural Gateway to the surging economies of the Asia-Pacific.
The Province’s major ports, airports, railways, and roadways are a major hub in a supply chain providing many of the goods we consume each and every day. The hub is known around the world as the Pacific Gateway.
A unique partnership of Gateway industries and governments at the Federal, Provincial and Regional level oversees the Pacific Gateway Strategy. High level coordination ensures a robust, reliable, and sustainable supply chain.
British Columbia’s ports are the shortest marine links to the surging economies of the Asia-Pacific. Our established road, rail and air connections reach deep into the heart of Canadian and US markets. Container traffic to all west coast ports is forecast to rise a staggering 300% by 2020. The Province is looking to the future and planning for that growth.
The Province is building on British Columbia’s natural advantages through the Pacific Gateway Strategy, setting ambitious volume targets for 2020:
- 9 million TEUs in container traffic imports from Asia-Pacific producers (up from 2 million in 2005)
- 95 million tonnes: bulk & break-bulk exports such as forestry products, agricultural products, petroleum products and metals (up from 70 million in 2005)
- 28.4 million air passengers through YVR (up from 16.4 million in 2005)
- 441,000 tonnes of air cargo (up from 223,700 tonnes in 2005)
New and upgraded road, rail, port and airport infrastructure will provide importers with a reliable link in the North American supply chain and exporters with greater access to foreign markets. Policy development is driven by a real need to improve the competitiveness of British Columbia’s transportation system.
British Columbia: Canada’s Pacific Gateway.
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