Ridley Terminals Inc. is the coal loading and unloading terminal at the Port of Prince Rupert, moving coal from unit trains onto vessels. It loads metallurgical and thermal coal, petroleum coke, iron ore pellets, and has the potential to ship other products such as sulphur.
Advantages for shippers:
- The only export terminal in British Columbia handling petroleum coke
- Able to unload small blocks of cars
- Closest port to Asia

Key features of Ridley Terminals:
- Fully automated
- 55 hectare terminal
- Loading rate of 9,000 tonnes per hour
- Annual shipping capacity of 24 million tonnes
- Storage capacity of 1.2 million tonnes
- Ready to handle vessels of 350,000 DWT
Prince Rupert Grain Ltd. has the highest throughput of any grain-cleaning elevator in Canada. Its eight shipping bins and three tower-mounted loading spouts can load up to 4,000 tonnes of grain, wheat or barley an hour. Using state-of-the-art technology, grain can be cleaned as fast as it is unloaded from railcars.
Key features of Prince Rupert Grain's terminal:
- Total terminal rail trackage of 17 kilometres
- Storage capacity (wheat equivalent) of 202,000 tonnes
- Annual design throughput of seven million tonnes
- One berth handles ships up to 145,000 DWT
- Water depth of 14.5 metres
- Loading rate of 4,000 tonnes per hour
