The Port of Vancouver USA is currently the preferred route to receive shipments bound for the Alberta oil sands.
What if giant loads of oil field equipment didn’t have to enter the United States to get from Asia to the Alberta oil sands project in Canada, and what if avoiding the U.S. actually cost less?
That’s the prospect being floated by a railroad company that owns a Canadian seaport. … The new alternative: Instead of coming [through the Port of Vancouver USA] to Idaho, megaloads could be shipped from Korea through the Panama Canal, up around the United States to Hudson Bay on the east coast of Canada, and from there west by rail, with a final segment by truck.