Seaspan opens $44M Duke Point terminal for growing ferry freight load

DUKE POINT — Seaspan Ferries officially opened its new $44-million ferry freight terminal on Monday as the company responds to rising demand on Vancouver Island.
“There is just steady growth in the amount of traffic to and from Vancouver Island,” Frank Butzelaar, CEO of Seaspan ULC, said at Nanaimo’s Duke Point.
Business has been growing annually by between two and two-and-a-half per cent, he said.
That business consists of trailers filled with every kind of consumer good