Toronto Transportation Assets

The Port of Toronto:

is situated along Lake Ontario and has full access to the Atlantic via the St. Lawrence Seaway.

Port facilities include: berths; dry bulk storage; large marshalling area; container yard; a marine terminal and heated warehouse; and, an extensive fleet of cargo handling equipment; a marine terminal building with 150,000 sq. ft. of storage; container distribution centre with 100,000 sq. ft. of heated storage; inside rail loading dock, inside truck docks, and many container bays.

The port directly serves 1/3 of the Canadian population and another major port, the Port of Hamilton, is located very close by as well. Between these two over 13 million tonnes of cargo was handles in 1999 and together have over 1.2 million square feet of port warehousing and 50 acres of outdoor space.

Both have full service lifting capabilities, and over 1.2 million square feet of port warehousing, with 50 acres of outdoor space.

Rail and Intermodal connections: Canada’s two principal railways the Canadian National (CN) and the Canadian Pacific (CP) have main lines running through the Toronto area and full Intermodal services from four different terminals in the Toronto area.

Equipment: a heavy lift crane with lifting capabilities of 270 tonnes, a mobile crane—35 tonnes, mobile container top lifters 46 tonnes, - large fleet of forklift trucks with lifting capacity of up to 50 tonnes with a wide range of attachments for handling products such as wood pulp, steel, drums etc.

Roads

Within one days drive there is a market of over 125 million, and many major highways run through Toronto. Among them are the:

QEW: connecting greater Toronto area with the US border at Lewiston, Niagara Falls and Buffalo,

401: Runs from Windsor to the Quebec border and is the busiest highway in

403: Connects the QEW and the 401 providing an east-west freeway through parts of Toronto.

409: provides a direct link from the 401 and 427 to the Lester B. Pearson International Airport.

410: provides a northward link from 403 and 401, and services many major industrial areas.

427: north-south freeway linking Metro Toronto to Mississauga and areas to the North.

407: first all electronic toll-booth, running east-west from the Northern sections of the Greater Toronto area to highway 48 in Markham.

427: north-south freeway linking Metro Toronto to Mississauga and areas to the North.

Airport:

The Lester B. Pearson, the largest and busiest airport in Canada services the Toronto area and the country. Located on 1,792 hectares this airport provides 40% of the country’s air cargo requirements.

Access: the airport is easily reached via major highways such as the 427 and 409.

Infrastructure: 2 east/west runways with 2 additional runways planned, 2 north/south runways, highly efficiency taxiway system, CAT IIIA capability and state-of-the-art de-icing facility.

Services: More than 60 airlines provide non-stop service to 114 destinations in 44 countries, and the airport handles over 360,000 metric tonnes of cargo each year. There are 8 different buildings that service the 67 carriers and over 100 freight forwarders that operate out of Toronto.