The new Fairview Container Terminal will move 500,000 TEUs (Twenty Foot Equivalent Units) per year. It is uniquely designed to efficiently handle the largest concentration of intermodal rail business. As such, the new container terminal will be North America's purest marine to rail intermodal transfer facility. The 18 meter (60 foot) extension of the wharf will allow for a berth depth of 16.75 meters (55 feet), enabling the wharf to easily accommodate the largest container ships now on the drawing board. Those ships hold up to 12,500 TEUs, making them up to 22 containers across. The container yard will hold more than 7,000 TEUs and have space for almost 3,000 in temporary storage. It will also have outlets for refrigerated containers. Significant support from CN will result in the upgrade and expansion of the intermodal yard to seven working tracks and six storage tracks, enough to hold more than 17,000 feet of train. CN will provide full double-stack clearance along the route and invest in additional rolling stock. Maher Terminals of Canada Corp. will provide three Super Post Panamax cranes to efficiently handle the world's largest container vessels.

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The vision for the future is the expansion of the terminal to nearly triple the size of the facility to accommodate an annual capacity of 2 million TEU's to meet the demands of continued growth in Asia Pacific traffic trade. The project would feature an extension of the wharf to 800 meters maintaining a 17 meter minimum water depth, increasing the dock area to 165 acres, and doubling the number of super post-panamax cranes. The expanded facility would have an on-site storage capacity of 25,000 TEUs and accommodate the continued growth in regional export traffic anticipated to develop over the next decade.