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Originally Posted by fenwick16

This is an interesting idea. Has it ever been discussed as a real possibility?

There seems to be plenty of space and the harbour depth seems sufficient (image shown below). Imperial Oil tried to sell the refinery in 2013 but since they couldn't, they converted it to a terminal - http://www.imperialoil.ca/Canada-Eng..._20130619.aspx

Here is a Google Maps link for the Dartmouth Refinery location - https://www.google.com/maps/place/44...3.531917?hl=en

I don't think increase in train traffic would be a major problem, since I think CN is currently only runniong one train a day to Halterm.


(source: http://www.bedfordbasin.ca/halifaxha...arbour-eng.php )

the Refinery and the tank farm are 2 separate beasts. The refinery is gone, but the tank farm and the 3 docks are still in use. so that cuts into the land available - and no clear water access.

interesting that Ceres wants out - they are thought to be the better managed terminal, and stuff isnt always broken there. i suspect they see the container lines moving to larger ships, and as a result, lost work.

im not sure i buy that - there is plenty of work for both terminals, however the smaller vessels that call at halterm would need to shift to fairview. also the 9000+ teu vessels cant make montreal, so there could be a market for a feeder service.

CN runs 1 inbound and 1 outbound train from Rockingham yard daily. there are constant movements to shuffle cars from the yard to the terminals and back again. on the Dartmouth side cn runs a daily train from moncton and back, plus the gypsum train daily, as well as the regualar shuffling of autoracks to autoport.