PROJECT SPOTLIGHT
Upgrading Capacity
Port of Hamilton Pier 12 rehabilitation reaches completion
By Janet Himstead
Located in Hamilton Harbour, at the far western end of
Lake Ontario, is the Port of Hamilton. The Port is connected
to the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway shipping
network. With multiple Seaway-depth berths, the
Port of Hamilton, and its sister port, the Port of Oshawa, are
able to make marine shipments throughout the Great Lakes
and international waters.
The Port and its management have a long history beginning
with the Hamilton City Council and the realization that
a separate governing body was needed to handle the rapid
commercialization and industrial expansion of the Port. In
1912, the Hamilton Harbour Commission was created via an
Act of Parliament. Eighty-nine years later, the new Hamilton
Port Authority (HPA) took over management of the Port.
The Hamilton-Oshawa Port Authority (HOPA), created in
2019, merged the two previous port authorities, HPA and the
Oshawa Port Authority, to oversee the economic welfare of
Canada along with 16 other port authorities within the country.
The Port of Hamilton is responsible for approximately $6
billion in economic activity and provides 38,000 jobs in the
province of Ontario.
HOPA owns more than 620 acres of land in Hamilton and
is home to a variety of businesses including logistics and
transportation businesses for the key regional industries of
steel manufacturing, agri-food and construction materials.
The Port of Hamilton houses multiple terminal operations
providing storage and transloading of dry bulk and liquid
bulk commodities, breakbulk and project cargo. Federal
Marine Terminals and QSL are the two stevedores who service
the port, and it is also serviced by two Class 1 North
American railways: Canadian National and Canadian Pacific
Railway Ltd.
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Nucor Skyline
supplied 131 pairs
of 19.8-metre-long
AZ 38-700N sheet
piles, as well as
131 #20 Grade 80
tie rods for the
last two phases
of the project.
PHOTO: DEAN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
A vibratory hammer was used to
drive the sheet pile to design toe
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