Ridley Island Export Logistics Project

Status
Project Development
Est Completion:
2026
Details
Ridley Island
Proponents

Project Description

The Ridley Island Export Logistics Project (RIELP) is a port infrastructure project that will enable and support the development of innovative, large scale, export transloading facilities designed to increase efficiencies in export supply chains maximize value to Canadian exporters, and support the growth of the intermodal business in the Port of Prince Rupert. 

The Prince Rupert Port Authority is the project proponent and would build the proposed land, rail, road and utility infrastructure required to support future transloading operations located on the platform. 

Located on the southern end of Ridley Island, the RIELP is designed to host integrated large-scale bulk transload facilities, integrated large-scale breakbulk facilities and an integrated off-dock container yard. Collectively, the platform is designed to support at least 400,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of export transload capacity annually, with the potential to increase capacity to 700,00 (TEUs) for bulk and breakbulk commodities in the future.

The project is designed to create a platform for transloading bulk commodities such as plastic pellets, cereal grains, speciality agriculture crops, lumber, pulp and mineral concentrates to containers for export. The integrated off-dock facility will provide empty container storage for the port’s container terminal operations, enhancing terminal efficiency and capacities. The platform and future operating services located on it will be fully integrated via transportation and technological integration with the container terminal operations.  

The infrastructure project is estimated to have a capital cost of 250 million dollars with a two-year construction timeline and an estimated workforce of 250 people during construction.

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Project Statistics

Estimated Capital Cost

250 Million

Estimated Construction Workforce

250 Person Years

Project Critical Path

Milestone

Date

Environmental Effects Evaluation start

01/01/2020

Construction start

31/10/2023

Project Critical Updates

Projects

Project

Est. completion

Status

Proposed Second Terminal in Prince Rupert

Port of Prince Rupert / South Kaien Island

2030-2031

Feasibility Assessment Underway

Q2 2022

Completed

South Kaien Logistics Park

Parcel 2, Parcel 4

Q3 2025

Project Development

Q3 2023

Under Construction

Fairview Container Terminal Expansion

DP World Prince Rupert Inc.

In Progress