Pacific Coast Terminals (Port Moody)

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Pacific Coast Terminals is a large marine terminal where ships load sulphur (see the yellow piles, and the yellow hopper cars on railway line) and ethylene glycol (blue and green storage tanks and green railway tanker cars). The sulphur comes from natural gas processing plants while the ethylene glycol is produced at petrochemical plants. Both products mainly originate in Alberta.

PCT is the world's largest terminal for exporting sulphur, handling 3.5 to 4 million tonnes in a typical year. PCT also ships up to 1 million tonnes of ethylene glycol each year, and has the facilities (railcar unloading facilities and two storage tanks) for handling styrene monomer, another petrochemical product.

Berth 1, the northernmost berth, is set up to handle liquid products (glycol), while Berth 2 with its conveyors and shiploader is used for loading sulphur and other solid products.

Since Canadian supplies of sulphur have been diminishing in recent years, PCT has been exploring a number of other commodities, and currently is developing plans to export potash (a product it handled in the 1960s) and food-grade canola oil. PCT has also handled some quantities of metallurgical coal as other port terminals have reached capacity.

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