In the container world, does size matter?

Our Fairview container port project continues to make news across North America, but sometimes we don’t come out on the positive side of the news.

Our municipal ego would have taken a bit of a kick should we have picked up a copy of the Contra Costa Times of California this week, which is decidedly not overly impressed with our burgs size.

While putting together an article on the ever competitive world of container shipping, it offered up this quaint little description of our city.

“Local governments from the tiny fishing village of Prince Rupert in British Columbia down to Lazaro Carenas in southern Mexico are looking at their waterfront property as potential sites for container ports.

The article (see it in full here) is looking at how development of container facilities across North America may impact the current arrangements in California and what they need to do to not only remain competitive but remain dominant.

Part of the strategy must be to downsize those communities that are offering up some competition!

Bigger port, bigger ego, eh!