Port of Churchill Welcomes First-Ever Ship From Russia
October 17, 2007
Churchill, Man. - The Churchill Gateway Development Corporation is pleased to announce that the first-ever ocean shipment from Russia has arrived at the Port of Churchill.
A Murmansk Shipping Company vessel, the Kapitan Sviridov, will unload a shipment of fertilizer imported by Farmers of North America, a farm membership-based organization. Upon discharge of the fertilizer, the Russian vessel will be loaded with 20,000 tonnes of wheat destined for Italy - part of the Canadian Wheat Board's largest wheat shipping program through Churchill since 1977.