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

Separate programme launch, financing, source-document availability, and observable marine progress. The Canada Infrastructure Bank says critical in-water works began in October 2025, but the owner's dated works log describes that October activity as site preparation and records the 13-15 July 2026 sheet-pile window as delivery and storage activity. The documentation centre supports annual reporting, monitoring, compensation, communication, complaints and environmental-control follow-up. It does not replace dated confirmation of sheet-pile driving, dredger mobilisation, completed dredging, an accepted quay or vessel access.

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

Evidence reviewed

16 July 2026

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Project anatomy

Scope, counterparties, and execution logic

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 read
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.
Next milestone
Track first evidenced sheet-pile driving and marine plant mobilisation, the selected dredging method and sediment route, baseline and acceptance hydrography, annual and monitoring reports that can be tied to the construction period, compliance reporting under the federal decision and fisheries authorization, finalization of the DP World construction and operating agreement, 2027 landside mobilisation, quay handover, terminal commissioning, and first commercial vessel operations.

Material change register

What changed, when, and what it proves

Only source-bound events that alter phase, scope, counterparties, delivery, completion, commissioning, or acceptance are listed. A change can advance the record without proving the next gate.

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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Delivery watch

Evidence needed next

Track first evidenced sheet-pile driving and marine plant mobilisation, the selected dredging method and sediment route, baseline and acceptance hydrography, annual and monitoring reports that can be tied to the construction period, compliance reporting under the federal decision and fisheries authorization, finalization of the DP World construction and operating agreement, 2027 landside mobilisation, quay handover, terminal commissioning, and first commercial vessel operations.

Decision watchpoints

  • 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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Project availability status

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Record control

Evidence reviewed date is not a project-event date.

IMWO changes phase, participants, scope, completion, or acceptance wording only when a dated source establishes the change. The review date records when the evidence set was checked; it does not claim that physical work changed on that date.

Evidence reviewed 16 July 2026 Sources in this record 11

Source record

The Montreal Port Authority's live works page is the controlling source for observable progress: it records October 2025 site preparation, June-July 2026 preparatory work, and a 13-15 July sheet-pile delivery and storage window. It does not state that those deliveries were accepted or that pile driving began. Its June 2026 crane update says the 300-tonne machine is intended for pile and sheet-pile installation and was ready to begin operations. The documentation centre identifies a 2025 annual report, monitoring programmes and reports, compensation plans, communication protocols, complaint summaries, and monthly noise and air-quality data; those records strengthen compliance and source discovery, but individual document listings are not used here to assert construction progress unless the document contents are reviewed. The CIB's April 2026 release uses broader language that critical in-water works began in October 2025; That broader sentence does not override the owner's more granular activity log. The owner, CIB, DP World, Fisheries and Oceans authorization, and IAAC records establish the financing, hybrid delivery structure, 675-metre two-berth scope, 1.15 million TEU capacity, 2030 target, and environmental controls. They do not prove completed sheet-pile deliveries, pile driving, dredger mobilisation, a selected dredging method, completed quay or dredging, a finalized DP World construction and operating agreement, or terminal operations.

Phase: construction. Evidence reviewed: 16 July 2026.

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