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Originally Posted by craneSpotter
Don't forget that Vancouver is an O&D port - the ships are actually based there for the summer season and depart and return to that port.
Victoria is just a day visit/port-o-call mostly to satisfy the Jones Act* for the foreign-flagged ships that travel between two US ports such as Seattle/San Francisco and Ketchikan.
*correction: it is actually the Passenger Vessel Services Act, Jones is applicable to freight.
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For the ships that home port in Vancouver during the summer they also take on supplies when in Vancouver. If you go for a walk at Canada Place and look down you see a small army of people loading supplies and fuel onto the ship. For the port of calls they don't load much onto the ship at all and need less infrastructure.