Eastern Railroad Discussion > Port Saint John, Pan Am & CM&Q

How will all of the activity at Port Saint John in New Brunswick affect New England and Eastern Canadian Railroads? It looks like DP World, who operates the terminal, has CMA CGM calling on the port. It also has worked an arrangement with Pan Am to provide container service to its yard in Ayer, MA outside of Boston. Will this be enough to get Pan Am to upgrade much of the old Maine Central to support containerized freight? Will any containers also flow on to the CM&Q also for service to Montreal?

Wonder if we'll see Pan Am run-through power or will New Brunswick Southern (& Eastern Maine) handle the trains on their lines

http://www.nbsouthern.com/

The occasional double stack car travels to and from Montreal on the CMQ now. During the CPR days there was substantial container business to and from Saint John. One has to be very optimistic to think that much container business will return to Saint John.

KG

IIRC, the Progressive Railroading article said the CMA CGM ships that call on Saint John (originating at their Kingston, Jamaica hub) are weekly arrivals and are on the small side at around 1,300 TEUs (see link to photo of one of the vessels, Arian. So I don't think we'll see large #s of CMA CGM transported containers arriving Saint John, in general. Hope I'm wrong.

https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/ARIAN-IMO-9517434-MMSI-305720000

Asia - Saint John Service Flyer: https://www.cma-cgm.com/static/CA/attachments/ST%20JOHN%2023082017.PDF



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/20/17 04:28 by JPB.