Sultran publicly describes coordinating export sulfur from nine inland Alberta and British Columbia facilities via CN and CPKC rail to Port Moody and North Vancouver terminals, operating more than 1,500 gondola railcars and Pacific Coast Terminals at Port Moody. The chain is the backbone for Canadian solid sulfur seaborne trade. The company site is at https://www.sultran.com/.
More than 1,500 gondolas is a unit-train programme, not a pipeline. Formed sulfur reaches tidewater on rail. Port Moody and North Vancouver are the loaders. Nine inland facilities are the forming and remelt nodes, including Heartland-area and other Alberta and BC sites. VFPA sulphur statistics are the harbour print of this chain. 2.29 million tonnes in 2021 is the chain's calendar-year throughput, down 14 percent from 2.65 million in 2020.
Alberta recovered sulfur still leaves mainly through this stem. USGS Canada about 4.9 million tonnes in 2021 is the recovered book. The gap between 4.9 million and 2.29 million is molten rail south, domestic use, and pour to block. Sultran is the solid-export slice. It does not move Tampa molten. It moves granules that price FOB Vancouver.
Argus's mid-2021 forming-project note and Heartland's 30 June tank are the inland half being built. Sultran is the rail-and-terminal half that already existed. A 14 percent harbour decline is stems not programmed, not a missing railroad. 2022's 2.79 million tonnes, up 22 percent, is the same chain running hotter when FOB paid.
Tampa about $192 in mid-June is the Florida contract the molten-rail door delivered into. Vancouver FOB last seen around early 2014, BC Insight, is the Pacific contract Sultran's loaders delivered into. Two doors, one recovered stream. The Sultran description is why a Canada-US sulfur desk and a Vancouver desk are the same corridor with two outlets.
Dry-bulk vessel programmes on the Pacific are the ocean half. The 23 September Argus sample's Middle East-South China $44-46 per tonne freight is the competing origin's ocean cost. Canadian Pacific stems avoid Hormuz and Suez. They still need a berth at Port Moody. Loaders, not AIS, set whether Alberta blocks become cargo.
Licensed weekly grids are not restated. The nine facilities, two railways, 1,500-plus gondolas, and Port Moody PCT are Sultran's public description, not a confidential tariff.
Figures follow Sultran. The Alberta-to-Port Moody chain is the 2021 logistics chapter under every Vancouver tonne in the five-year ladder.