/R E P E A T -- Media Advisory - Highlighting how Canada's Asia-Pacific gateway is helping deepen trade with fast-growing Asia-Pacific markets/

OTTAWA, July 5, 2012 /CNW/ - The Honourable Ed Fast, Canada's Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway and the Honourable Blair Lekstrom, British Columbia's Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure, will be visiting Southern Railway of British Columbia's short-sea shipping facility on July 9, 2012 in Delta, BC.

Media availability and photo opportunity with the Ministers to follow. A tour of the barge docking berth is offered to media who register in advance and provide their own safety boots. Please contact Transport Canada Media Relations at 613-993-0055 / [email protected] by July 6, 2012 to register for the tour.

Date:	Monday, July 9, 2012
Time:	11:00 a.m. PST (vessel arrival and railcars unloading demonstration)
Location:	1025 Derwent Way (site access at end of Derwent Place) Annacis Island Delta, British Columbia V3M 5R4 Parking available along Derwent Place.

 

 

Rudy Husny
Press Secretary
Office of the Honourable Ed Fast
Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway
613-992-7332

Media Relations
Transport Canada
613-993-0055

Kate Trotter
Government Communications and Public Engagement
British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure
250-356-8241