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Tour of Versacold Cliveden Centre
Sponsored by SCL Canada and Canadian Material Handling and Distribution Society
Tuesday February 28th, 2006
4:00 PM
836 Cliveden Avenue, Annacis Island,
Delta, BC
Cost: $5.00 for CMHDS and SCL members; $15 for non-members.
To register send an email to events@cmhds.org or call 604-828-6738.
Opened in 1991 with 40’ high NA Rack/MHE system located in a freezer […]

In an agreement valued at close to 236 million dollars, Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) will donate its Vancouver Island Rail Corridor to the Island Corridor Foundation (ICF). The agreement includes CPR’s portion of the 139-mile-long former Esquimault and Nanaimo (E&N) rail line from Victoria to Courtenay. In addition to the 651 hectares (1610 acres) […]

Alaska Republicans Senators. Ted Stevens and Lisa Murkowski and Rep. Don Young, who all favour oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge are tweaking the noses of Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, Washington State Democrats who don’t want the territory opened for drilling and led the successful recent fight to stop it. […]

Robert Deluce’s Regco subsidiary, Porter Airlines will continue as planned with its scheduled launch for fall 2006, after the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled against Air Canada Jazz’s request for an injunction related to the termination of its month-to-month lease at Toronto City Centre Airport (TCCA).
Evidence indicated that over the years Jazz cut […]

Regarding the recent Supreme Court decision on the future of the Arbutus Lands:
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DP World wants to defuse […]

The Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and the related Aircraft Equipment Protocol (commonly known as the “Cape Town Convention”) will enter into effect on March 1, 2006. The convention will significantly alter the rules governing asset-based financings of planes by establishing a new international framework for enforcing sales contracts. Signatories agree to enforce […]

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Loblaw president John Lederer has already taken personal responsibility for a poorly executed supply chain re-design, (under-) budgeted at $62 million and still a work in progress.
As has also been previously disclosed, the Company encountered certain challenges during the execution of planned changes to its systems, supply chain and general merchandise areas. These delays […]