Halifax is a North American gateway for imports and exports, with seamless transload capabilities. Click here for a complete overview of what the Halifax Gateway can offer your business.
- Infrastructure to handle fully laden post-Panamax vessels, and with capacity to triple container volumes
- Called by 10 of the world's top 15 container lines
- Handled 435,000 Twenty-foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) and processed 261,000 cruiseline passengers in 2010
- Halifax Seaport offers more than 2,000 feet (611 metres) of continuous berth space and is recognized as an experienced full- service cruise terminal
- More scheduled liner services and direct calls to more continents than any other Canadian port.
- Home to Autoport, one of North America's largest vehicle processing and transhipment facilities
- Site of six grain towers, capable of delivering 50,000 bushels of grain per hour
- Imperial Oil Wharves enables coastal and foreign-going tanker vessels to load and discharge oil at wharves connected to its refinery by pipeline
- Only airport in Atlantic Canada with US pre-clearance
- Used by 16 commercial airlines and five scheduled cargo airlines
- 8,800 foot runway currently being extended to 10,500 feet
- 40,000 square foot multi-tenant cargo facility
- More than 28 metric tons of cargo and 3.5 million passengers moved in 2010
- Rated by passengers as the Best Airport in the World in its class (under 5 million) in 2010, for the seventh year in a row
- Located adjacent to the Aerotech Business Park, a municipally run business park catering to the aerospace and defence industry.
- Located in Burnside Park – the largest business park north of Boston and east of Montreal with over 1,500 hundred enterprises and over 15,000 employees
- Next to five 100-series highways providing quick access to and from the region. 10-15 minutes to urban centre of Halifax, the Halifax Stanfield International Airport and the Port of Halifax
- Phase 1 of the park has already attracted large anchor tenants engaged in transloading, distribution and warehousing activities
- New lots of serviced acreage are available for immediate acquisition. Lots can be customized to fit your distribution needs
Most facilities at Halifax have direct, on-dock rail service as part of CN's North American rail network. Double-stack trains move daily, seven days a week, from the Port of Halifax to CN's rail terminals in Toronto, Montreal and Chicago. Specialized rail equipment is available for bulk, breakbulk, heavy-lift and containerized cargo.