No injuries were reported after a machinery fire damaged a marine coal terminal at the Port of Vancouver.
Video posted on social media showed thick black smoke billowing from the blaze at Westshore Terminals on Friday at Roberts Bank, British Columbia. The fire was extinguished by local first responders, the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority said in a statement. Operations at the terminal, just over the U.S. border, and at a neighboring facility operated by GCT Deltaport were temporarily shut down.
Delta Fire & Emergency Services in a posting to X said the fire was limited to a conveyor belt and is not considered suspicious.
Westshore bills itself as Canada’s busiest export coal terminal, handling 36 million tons a year.
