Transcript Small Ports of Entry: Challenges and Opportunities Canada-US Transportation Border Working Group October 28th, 2009

Small Ports of Entry:
Challenges and
Opportunities
Canada-US Transportation Border
Working Group
October 28th, 2009
Content
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Purpose
What is a small port of entry
Some characteristics
Challenges and opportunities
What the future may hold
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Purpose
• Stimulate a discussion on issues related
to small Ports of Entry at the land
border
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What is a small port of entry
• CBSA does not have a rigorous definition
• We think of small ports of entry as those that
have:
– “Low” traffic, low processing capacity, and minimal
resources deployed
– “Lower” level of service: typically 16/7 or 9/7
operation for travellers only
• There are small ports of entry in all modes of
transportation with similar challenges
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Some Statistics:
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119 POEs at the CAN-US land border
25 Designated Commercial Operations
33 Travellers 24/7 ports of entry
61 Small ports of entry
Processed 6.2M trucks in the highway mode
Processed 70.0M travellers in the highway
mode
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Some Statistics:
DCOs: 25
Travellers (24/7): 33
Small Ports: 61
Total: 119
Travellers
Trucks
44.3M
63.3%
20.5M
29.3%
5.2M
7.4%
70.0M
5.60M
90.1%
0.34M
5.5%
0.28M
4.4%
6.22M
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Some Statistics by Regions:
Number of
PoEs
Small
PoEs
Travellers
(M)
Travellers
(%)
WSC
3
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16.3
23.3%
NFE
4
1
15.7
22.4%
Pacific
21
12
13.7
19.6%
NOR
7
0
8.4
12.0%
Québec
32
13
6.8
9.7%
Atlantic
17
6
5.6
8.0%
Prairies
35
29
3.5
5.0%
Total
119
61
70
100.0%
Regions
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Some characteristics of
small POEs
• Minimum resources and level of service
• Often, but not always, isolated
• Configured to serve travellers on secondary or
tertiary highways
• Low efficiency (unit cost of service is high)
• Security risk varies: small ≠ low risk
• The oldest infrastructure at the CAN-US border
(Forest City – 78 years old)
• Significant local importance and expectations
• Consequences of failures to trade is minimal
• Historical and geographical peculiarities (St Stephen,
NB)
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Forrest City, NB (1931)
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Wild Horse, AB (1958)
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Snowflake, MB (1952)
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St. Stephen, NB
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Issues and Opportunities
• Government of Canada:
– What level of service should be provided to
Canadians in general?
• Costs - benefit
– Balancing national and local objectives
– Satisfying stakeholder expectations
– Federal presence in isolated and rural
communities
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Issues and Opportunities
• CBSA:
– Allocating resources across, and within all
modes
• Security versus facilitation
• Costs versus benefits
• Risks
– Sustaining the infrastructure
– Staffing isolated ports of entry
– Joint/shared installations
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Issues and Opportunities
• Stakeholders:
– Sustaining small and rural communities
– Socio-economic development expectations
– Access to services
– Access to employment
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What the future may hold
• Technology improvements
• Resource pressures will prevail
• Improved coordination and focus with
Provinces and State DOTs on future
development priorities
• Small port template design
• Joint CAN-US installations
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