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Aerial view of a rain-soaked container terminal beside a forested coastal inlet, with stacked shipping containers and freight rail cars flanking a gantry crane over the tracks.

Canada’s New $750M Export Terminal Fixes a Real Problem. Replacing US Trade Isn’t It.

By NUBR

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CANXPORT opened at Prince Rupert on August 27 — 400,000 containers a year of Canadian export capacity. Los Angeles and Long Beach moved 20.1 million in 2025. The terminal solves an empty-container problem, which is a smaller and more interesting story.

A dimly lit corridor of aging server racks with bundled cabling, one dead ceiling light panel, and warm sunset light through a window at the far end.

The TMF Got Three More Months. Funding It Ninety Days at a Time Is the Real Problem.

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Congress extended the Technology Modernization Fund to 11 December, and it can finance new projects until then. The September cliff is gone. The pattern that created it — funding a multi-year programme three months at a time — is not.