Project record

Port of Montreal Contrecœur Container Terminal

A 300-tonne crawler crane assembled beside the St. Lawrence River at the future Contrecœur container terminal site in June 2026

Montreal Port Authority, June 2026

The Montreal Port Authority is developing a 1.15 million TEU container terminal at Contrecœur, about 40 kilometres downstream from Montreal. Site preparation began in October 2025, a 300-tonne marine-construction crane was assembled in June 2026, and the official works log recorded a 13-15 July 2026 window for quay-wall sheet-pile delivery and storage. The owner's documentation centre now exposes annual, monitoring, compensation, communication, complaint, and environmental data routes that should be read separately from physical delivery proof. A CAD 1.16 billion Canada Infrastructure Bank loan supports the programme, while the next physical proof point remains execution of the quay, dredging, and vessel-access works.

Project signal

Construction in Canada

Current status Site preparation under way; a quay-wall crane is installed and the owner recorded a 13-15 July sheet-pile delivery window, but the works log still does not evidence pile driving, dredger mobilisation, or accepted vessel access Source confidence Confirmed

Location

Canada / Americas

Segment

Port infrastructure

Status

Site preparation under way; a quay-wall crane is installed and the owner recorded a 13-15 July sheet-pile delivery window, but the works log still does not evidence pile driving, dredger mobilisation, or accepted vessel access / Confirmed

Last checked

15 August 2026

Coverage

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Port infrastructure is the primary work classification. Related sectors connect this record to adjacent marine delivery and market coverage.

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Project anatomy

Contract scope and delivery roles

Client / authority
Montreal Port Authority
Delivery parties
Contrecoeur Terminal Constructors General Partnership (Pomerleau and Aecon)
Contract route
Hybrid delivery model. The Montreal Port Authority leads the in-water package through a collaborative progressive design-build arrangement with the Pomerleau-Aecon joint venture. DP World in Canada signed a joint development agreement for landside design and is intended to construct, operate, and maintain the landside terminal under a future construction and operating agreement; the September 2025 agreement said those final terms were still to be completed.
Execution window
Owner-recorded site preparation started on 9 October 2025. The programme schedule places in-water works in 2026, landside works in 2027, and completion and commercial operations in 2030. A 300-tonne crane intended for pile and sheet-pile installation was ready in June 2026, and the owner recorded a 13-15 July 2026 window for quay-wall sheet-pile delivery, unloading, and storage. These milestones establish mobilisation and supply-readiness evidence, not proof that deliveries were accepted, piles were driven, dredging mobilised, or other in-water construction is complete.
Works package
Develop a 675-metre dock with two berths, quay wall and vessel-access infrastructure, dredging of the berth approach, a 1.15 million TEU container yard, an intermodal rail yard, road and truck-gate connections, utilities, buildings, handling systems, and supporting port facilities. The environmental assessment describes dredging to -11.0 metres Chart Datum along the wharf approach and evaluates mechanical and hydraulic methods; it is an assessment basis, not public proof of the selected execution method or completed dredging.
Marine interfaces
The marine package joins sheet-pile and anchor systems, quay construction, dredging, sediment storage and routing, hydrographic control, vessel access, an active industrial-port zone, fish-habitat protection, copper-redhorse commitments, wetland and aquatic-vegetation follow-up, complaint reporting, and a landside terminal delivered on a separate commercial track. The owner must manage these interfaces within the amended federal decision statement, Fisheries and Oceans Canada authorization, monitoring programmes, compensation plans, and communication protocols while preserving a traceable boundary between preparatory activity and accepted marine assets.
Commercial evidence boundary
The CAD 1.16 billion CIB commitment is a loan to the Montreal Port Authority, not a disclosed total project cost or construction-contract award. Federal and Quebec contributions, CIB debt, future port revenues, and private-terminal-operator participation sit in different funding and repayment layers. The owner-led in-water package and DP World-led landside path create a material handover risk: quay geometry, dredged access, utilities, rail and yard interfaces must be sufficiently defined and accepted before terminal systems and 40-year operations can perform as intended.

Project timeline

Material developments

Dated events that changed scope, counterparties, delivery, commissioning or operating status.

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Owner scheduled a three-day quay-wall sheet-pile delivery window

The live works log set 13-15 July for delivery, unloading, and on-site storage of quay-wall sheet piles, advancing the supply sequence without confirming that delivery was completed or that sheet-pile driving and in-water construction had started.

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Three-hundred-tonne marine-construction crane assembled on site

The owner reports that the crane was raised and ready for pile and sheet-pile operations after delivery in 13 convoys and a week of assembly. Pile driving, quay progress and dredging remained unreported.

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Canada Infrastructure Bank announced a CAD 1.16 billion loan

The loan materially strengthens the financing path for the owner-led terminal programme, but it is neither a disclosed total project cost nor evidence that the marine package, dredging, or vessel-access works have been completed.

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Fisheries and Oceans Canada authorized the wharf and underwater works

The authorization clears a central regulatory gate under the Fisheries Act and Species at Risk Act while binding construction to specified measures and conditions. Physical commencement and compliance acceptance remained separate, unreported steps.

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Owner confirmed site preparation had started

Fencing, access roads, work platforms, targeted tree cutting, and site facilities established the land-preparation baseline. The owner record does not describe this milestone as sheet-pile driving, dredging, or completed in-water works.

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Evidence gap

What remains unverified

Outstanding evidence

  • First sheet-pile driving and marine-construction activity in water
  • Dredger nomination, mobilisation, method, quantity, and sediment route
  • Baseline hydrography and accepted berth and access depths
  • Annual, monitoring, compensation, complaint, and communication records tied to the construction period
  • Compliance evidence for fish habitat and amended federal conditions
  • Final DP World construction and operating agreement
  • Quay-to-yard, rail, utilities, and equipment handover interfaces
  • Terminal commissioning and first commercial vessel call

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Reporting status

Construction, confirmed confidence

Last checked 15 August 2026 across 11 cited sources. The dated timeline above carries the project events.

Last checked 15 August 2026 Cited sources 11

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