Procurement
TerraMarine is preferred for Roberts Bank, with the target-price agreement still ahead
Vancouver Fraser Port Authority has chosen TerraMarine for the next stage of Roberts Bank Terminal 2's landmass and wharf package. The team now works through design, logistics, cost and schedule with the authority, First Nations and regulators. A target-price design-build agreement comes later, after the initial work and financial close. Canada's live dashboard separately records the Fisheries Act authorization as in progress, with 0 of 1 permits completed and no decision date.
Published scope and current milestone
The 13 July Vancouver Fraser Port Authority release is explicit that TerraMarine is preferred proponent subject to final negotiations. It also says the target-price design-build agreement follows sufficient initial work and financial close. Canada's 16 July Gateway Strategy record keeps the project in regulatory and project planning. The IAAC dashboard, verified on 10 August 2026, records 0 of 1 permits completed, the Fisheries Act authorization in progress from a 28 October 2024 application and no decision date; its displayed 89% measures elapsed target-window time, not permit or construction progress. Federal and provincial decisions define the approval and compliance boundary. The component map is from the authority's 2013 project description and is used only to explain the planned marine interfaces; it is not current design or construction evidence.
Contract packaging and mobilisation implications
The package is the marine core of the terminal: landmass, wharf, berth pocket, causeway widening and tug-basin expansion. The delivery team is identifiable, but price, final design, finance, the construction-enabling fisheries authorization and mobilisation remain open.
Evidence conclusion
Award, mobilisation and acceptance evidence
Preferred-proponent selection narrows the field from three teams to TerraMarine, but it does not authorize construction. The collaborative phase still has to price the approved concept within the federal decision conditions, and the current Fisheries Act authorization remains undecided. The permit dashboard's 89% display is elapsed time in the target window, not authorization or construction progress. The decisive documents are the permit decision, signed target-price contract, financed scope, environmental controls, material routes and executable programme.
Outstanding evidence
- Finalization of negotiations and the initial development scope
- Executed target-price design-build agreement and disclosed commercial terms
- Fisheries Act authorization decision; the current dashboard records 0 of 1 completed and no decision date
- Financial close and executed target-price design-build agreement
- Final landmass, wharf, berth-pocket, causeway and tug-basin design
- Reclamation fill, dredging and material-management plan
- Marine logistics beside existing Roberts Bank operations
- Mobilisation and early works in the late-2027 target window
- Land reclamation start against the 2028 target
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Sources used 5
- Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project permits dashboard Impact Assessment Agency of Canada, Monthly dashboard; verified 10 August 2026
- Preferred construction partner selected for Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project Vancouver Fraser Port Authority via GlobeNewswire, 13 July 2026
- Port of Vancouver Gateway Strategy Government of Canada, Major Projects Office, 16 July 2026
- Minister's Environmental Assessment Decision Statement Impact Assessment Agency of Canada, 20 April 2023
- Roberts Bank Terminal 2: Project Description Vancouver Fraser Port Authority / British Columbia Environmental Assessment Office, September 2013