Transportation

Manitoulin Transport will acquire Vitran Corp. , a less-than-load (LTL) firm headquartered in Concord, Ont. The deal, including the assumption of Vitran’s outstanding net debt of about US$29 million, is worth about US$128 million.

Greater Sudbury Airport is building a hangar for Discovery Air with the aid of $1 million from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund. Sudbury MPP Rick Bartolucci made the announcement on Dec. 6.

The unions at the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission (ONTC) say they've won a small victory in being asked to participate in the provincial process to determine the future of the Crown-owned agency.

Five people were killed in a plane crash near Red Lake, Ontario, on Sunday, Nov. 10. According to reports from the Ontario Provincial Police, a Bearskin Airlines twin engine turbo prop crashed near the Red Lake airport at 6:30 p.m. local time.

Advocates of passenger rail service in Northern Ontario have stepped up their lobby efforts with the formation of the Northern and Eastern Ontario Rail Network (NEORN).

New construction at Greater Sudbury airport is making it a beehive of activity again.

Bombardier Transportation Canada has been fined $280,000 in a Thunder Bay court for two separate accidents last year that injured workers at its Thunder Bay passenger rail car plant.

The unions of the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission (ONTC) insist no one is working on any option other than divestment of the North Bay -headquartered Crown agency.

Porter Airlines travellers will be happy to know that construction of the pedestrian tunnel connecting downtown Toronto to Billy Bishop Airport on Toronto Island is halfway complete. The Toronto Port Authority made the announcement in an Aug.

Abdelhamid Tayebi is the first to admit he’s no authority on fighting forest fires.