CS-2025-01 - Vessel Traffic Forecasting Great Lakes-St. Lawrence

Clear Seas Centre for Responsible Marine Shipping Society (Clear Seas) requires consulting services to conduct an assessment of projected vessel traffic levels in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence region. This report will build on our Vessel Traffic Forecasting Pacific study completed earlier this year. Clear Seas has identified the impact of changing vessel traffic conditions and the associated maritime services needed to maintain a safe maritime environment as a key issue affecting marine shipping in Canada.

Within the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence region, multiple resource and terminal expansion projects with a marine shipping component are currently under review  or have been approved in Canada and in the United States. The changes in shipping traffic following approval of multiple projects could have a significant impact on the maritime shipping landscape over the next 10-40 years. The goal of this work is to provide information about the potential increases to support maritime sector participants in adapting to a rapidly evolving marine landscape.This project is to determine vessel traffic projections as a result of major resource and terminal expansion projects in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence region with a marine shipping component across a range of timeframes (2030, 2040, 2050, 2060).