There are few new ports in North America. One exception is Prince Rupert,
British Columbia, which exploits a niche market (shorter transpacific distances; or
long-distance rail access to the Chicago hub, and then) to the Mexican Pacific
coast, that has seen the setting of new terminal facilities such as in Lazero
Cardenas (Randolph 2008). Several ports (e.g. Mobile, Jacksonville, Norfolk),
have expansion projects that may capture a greater share of the traffic, but it
remains to be seen to what extent these additional capacities will be used in freight
distribution. There is also an entirely new terminal project at Melford, Nova
Scotia, in collaboration with the same terminal operator as in Prince Rupert
(Maher Terminals) but this project remains highly speculative.