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Notes
| 1. | Statistics pertaining to 2004 and 2005 data can be found in Canadian Economic Observer; Vol. 20 No. 4, April 2007. Statistics Canada catalogue no. 11-010-XIB. Comparative analyses were done using data taken from various issues of the Canadian Economic Observer. |
| 2. | The merchandise trade with the rest of the world went up by 18.2% in 2005, if we exclude the European Union (EU) and the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries. |
| 3. | Note that domestic cargo is handled twice by the Canadian ports and marine terminals system, once when loaded and again when unloaded. |
| 4. | Crude petroleum started leading outbound shipments to the United States in 2000 with a jump in 2002 when production from Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore oil projects began. |
| 5. | Grains include wheat, colza seeds (canola), barley, rye, oats and other cereal grains. |
| 6. | Wood chips accounted for 45.4% of the total domestic shipments in the region. |
| 7. | Under Canada Marine Act (1998), nineteen port authorities were created based on their potential to be financially self-sufficient. These are: Vancouver, Saint John, Montréal, Sept-Ïles, Québec, Halifax, Prince Rupert, Hamilton, Fraser River, Thunder Bay, Windsor Ont., Belledune, Trois-Rivières, Nanaimo, Toronto, Saguenay (Chicoutimi) Port Alberni, St. John’s and North Fraser River. |
| 8. | Coal accounted for 32% of the total tonnage handled at the Port of Vancouver. |
| 9. | Petroleum products include fuel oils, gasoline and aviation turbine fuel, coal coke and petroleum coke and other refined petroleum and coal products. |
| 10. | These variations are due to differences in the coverage (e.g. Statistics Canada’s survey is a threshold survey that may exclude some traffic operating on the river), survey definitions (Statistics Canada’s survey counts cargo that is actually loaded onto or unloaded from a marine conveyance within the port) and differences in the level of response from the marine community. |
| 11. | The cargo that is unloaded from a vessel at a port and reloaded onto another vessel. It is therefore handled twice by the same port, sometimes after a period of storage. |
| 12. | Coal was shipped domestically for the first time from Toronto since 1990. |