Montreal Makes Pitch for Ships to Head North amid Supply Chain Snarls

The head of Canada’s second-biggest port has a supply-chain sales pitch few of his peers in the global shipping industry can match: zero wait time at sea for container traffic.

Martin Imbleau, chief executive officer at the Montreal Port Authority, said the ability to dock and load efficiently there is luring new clients even though doing so requires traveling the length of the St. Lawrence River, 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) inland from the Atlantic Ocean.

“A longer route, in some cases, becomes preferable if it provides reliability,” Imbleau said in an interview.

Read more in an article from gCaptain.