Major projects

In a drive to support global growth in demand for containerized grain, the MPA launched a project to redevelop and upgrade the CanEst terminal. With a budget of $19.4 million, the project will make it possible to increase the terminal's handling capacity and optimize operational space, while reducing health and safety risks for workers as well as environmental impacts. 

 

Milestones in 2024 include redeveloping the parking lot at 3400 Notre-Dame Street East, beside the terminal, and building the new electrical substation. Next steps include demolishing the old electrical substation, repairing the level crossing over the terminal and redeveloping the yard at 3400 Notre-Dame Street East.

With a budget of $42.4 million, the Pie-IX rehabilitation project ensures the structure’s durability, increases rail capacity and optimizes the flow of goods on the Port's rail network. The completed stages include adding a fourth rail track and building three rail storage lanes for Lantic Sugar to the northeast of the overpass. These three storage lanes will allow Lantic Sugar to increase its sugar-car storage capacity and production to meet demand from companies in Quebec and Ontario. 

The MPA officially completed its major rail capacity optimization project, designed to improve the performance and seamless flow of its logistics services. Spread over four years and representing a total investment of $62.4 million, this ambitious project that spans an area from Bourbonnière Avenue to Panet Street, near the Jacques-Cartier Bridge, significantly increases the Port of Montreal's rail capacity by adding 6 km of track to the existing network. Stages completed in 2024 include the commissioning of two new tracks between Sections 24 and 42.

With a $16.5 million budget, the Quay 28 repair project consists of stabilizing the wharf's structure by building a combined sheet pile and pile wall to stop the wharf from tilting toward the river. These works contribute to the maintenance of marine and rail operations, as well as the securement of port infrastructure, that is, the railways, rainwater and electricity networks, the Quay and the Port Road. The stages completed in 2024 include monitoring movements of the wharf structure and project design. 

This project's objective, with a $13.8 million budget, is to rehabilitate the Grand Quay parking lot. Project works include rebuilding the concrete slabs and steel structure, reconfiguring the drainage system, finishing the parking lot roof and creating a new pedestrian corridor. In 2024, the completed stages were demolition of the concrete slabs and pavement milling.  

With 37 km of water supply networks on Port territory, serving offices and buildings, 268 fire hydrants and ships, the MPA strives to maintain pipes in good working order, ensure water quality and guarantee service reliability. 

 

In 2024, the structural lining rehabilitation project on Racine Terminal's water supply system, begun in 2023, continued with the installation of structural liners at a cost of $6 million. Teams excavated shafts at strategic points on the terminal network and inserted structural liners inside existing pipes. This process extends the lifespan of these pipes by 75 years by reinforcing them, limiting the impact on terminal operations, and avoiding the need to move thousands of tonnes of soil and excavate the terminal's surface. 

With a $6.8 million budget, the project involves replacing wind tunnels with switch heating systems. A total of 45 switches are now equipped with new, more energy-efficient systems that are remotely controlled to melt snow and ice at the switch points. As a result, the new system improves the efficiency of rail operations in winter weather, controls the intensity of heat to be generated to suit the weather conditions and operates the remote point heating systems to reduce the number of times people need to intervene onsite.