The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority is leading the Centerm Expansion Project to help meet increasing demand for containers shipped through the Port of Vancouver. It will increase container handling ability at Centerm Terminal by two-thirds, from 900,000 20-foot equivalent unit containers (TEUs) to 1.5 million TEUs. By increasing the terminal footprint by only 15 per cent and rearranging the terminal operations, the terminal will be able to handle a more than 60 per cent increase in containers.
In 2022 the Heatley Avenue overpass was demolished, part of the South Shore Access Project. The removal of the Heatley Avenue overpass was required to realign Centerm Terminal’s intermodal yard to the CP and CN rail yard, to make way for the re-alignment of Waterfront Road and to complete the project.
Demolition began in July 2021 with the removal of the DP World’s former operations centre at the foot of the Heatley Avenue overpass and continued in phases. The removal of the structure over the railways began in April 2022 and was completed in September 2022.
