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GN to issue design agreement for Iqaluit port
The Government of Nunavut will award a contract this summer to create a port for Iqaluit, Nunatsiaq News has learned.
Peter Taptuna, minister of monetary development and transportation,www.cardinalsigns.ca/page/554, said last week his department really wants to issue the tender for a design a while this month or next. He couldn't say how much anything might be worth.
there a port built here it will help the rest of the communities on Baffin and also have a trickledown effect for all of Nunavut, Taptuna said within an interview.
He explained the department really wants to see a proposal for a multiuse port that would serve fishing vessels, hunters, sealift companies, and even ferries that may eventually haul cargo and passengers from Montreal via a highway to Happy ValleyGoose Bay, Labrador that because of be completed soon.
A port allows sealift cargo to become offloaded in hours, instead of days or weeks, and end the costly and sometimes dangerous utilization of barges to unload cargo onto Iqaluit beach.
Taptuna recently returned from Labrador, where he toured a marine facility in Happy ValleyGoose Bay, along with the tiny coastal communities of Rigolet and Hopedale,www.teamrahim.ca/2013/10/pjs-parajumpers-jassen/, each of which have small craft harbours.
He noted that Newfoundland and Labrador have around 370 docks, while Nunavut, with 40 percent of Canada coastline,canada goose, just one, in Pangnirtung, that is being built.
He said Nunavut needs the us government to assist build more infrastructure if it wants the territory to have a more selfsufficient economy.
totally frustrating, Taptuna said. you talk to the mariners, the operators that do show up here during shipping season, they really can understand why we in the 1920s for marine infrastructure. cautioned the port is not a done deal, and must be economically sustainable for the project to go ahead. Which will mean federal, territorial and municipal governments all setting up money for the project.
don wish to raise the price of incoming resupply, he explained. got to be multiuse, functional and sustainable.
However the proposal is really a change of tack for the GN. Under former premier Paul Okalik, the GN didn give firm support for any deepwater port in Iqaluit, even after the town commissioned an agenda for a $50 million port and small craft harbour in 2005.
Instead, they floated the thought of a deepwater port in Kimmirut attached to the capital by having an allweather road as well as the 2004 small craft harbours report, which called for wharfs to be built-in seven Nunavut communities.
Taptuna said the GN still wants to see action with that report, which would mean the making of fishing wharves in Clyde River, Qikiqtarjuaq, Pond Inlet,canada goose sale, Chesterfield Inlet, Repulse Bay and Kugaaruk.
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