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Major League Ambition
If the Port of Halifax is going to compete in a post-Panamex world, it will need a new, larger container terminal. But a Port Master Plan is delayed, and myriad difficulties are posed by potential new sites for a terminal. That leaves a massive expansion of the existing HalTerm in the South End.
Halifax has been a player and leader in the container terminal business for nearly half a century, having opened one of the first container terminals on North America’s east coast back in 1969 — Halterm in the city’s South End. Thirteen years later, in 1982, a second was opened in Fairview Cove in the North...