Centerm

Centerm is short for Centennial Terminals, a major dock in Vancouver's East Side.

It is one of four container terminals at the Port of Vancouver, the others being Vanterm, Deltaport, and Roberts Bank. Combined they handled 1.94 million containers in 2020.[1]

Construction

Building rubble was dumped on the foreshore at Main Street and a peninsula where the Hastings Mill once sat and a massive terminal was created at the behest of Barney Johnson with Federal money in 1958, hence the Centennial Year and name (BC's 100's birthday). It was operated by Canadian Stevedoring, before management was taken over by the port authority itself.[2]

As of 2020 there is an expansion underway to considerably increase the capacity of Centerm.[3]

References
  1. Growing pains; Container plans put pressure on Port of Vancouver's current tenants, as well as residential neighbours Penner, Derrick.The Vancouver Sun; Vancouver, B.C. [Vancouver, B.C]20 Feb 2021: A.12.
  2. Vancouver may alter port role to operator, not just landlord The Globe and Mail; Toronto, Ont. [Toronto, Ont]18 Feb 1984: B.7.
  3. Growing pains; Container plans put pressure on Port of Vancouver's current tenants, as well as residential neighbours Penner, Derrick.The Vancouver Sun; Vancouver, B.C. [Vancouver, B.C]20 Feb 2021: A.12.

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