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Originally Posted by darkharbour
This is anecdotal from people I have talked to over the years and some reports I have read, but my understanding was that there were discussions about moving all of the port facilities to the Outer Harbour [Mispec, Red Head, Lorneville, etc.] in part because the dredging costs for the Inner Harbour have always been so high due to being a river estuary (at times ~1/3 of the operating budget), to accommodate larger ships, and to move industrial development away from the core. The current Canaport facilities did end up being built, but some of the other concepts such as moving the container terminal, oil export terminal, etc. never happened for economic reasons.
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Interesting thought experiment if all the port facilities were moved to Mipsec/Lorneville would we have seen the same growth with the port? Would there be a call to convert the old port to be a Fundy Quay project but on the west side? If that's the case, do we see a small commuter ferry come back? Fun thoughts.
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