High winds topple coal loaders at Vancouver port
VANCOUVER (Jan. 6, 2003) — It could take more than three months to replace two loading cranes at the Port of Vancouver that were toppled by a severe winter storm late last Thursday.
Two people were hurt when winds gusting at more than 100 km/h blew over the four-storey towers at the Deltaport facility at Roberts Bank operated by Westshore Terminals, Canada’s largest coal export facility and the largest dry bulk terminal on the West Coast.
A spokesman for Westshore Terminals told Canadian Press that one tower tumbled into the water and the other into a ship that was being loaded. A third loading tower at the facility was not damaged.
Westshore handles about 20 million tonnes of coal annually.
The Vancouver Port Authority said Deltaport container operations were unaffected by the storm.
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