The Impact Assessment Agency ruled that the port authority can build its Roberts Bank Terminal 2 expansion in the water off Delta, B.C., subject to 370 conditions meant to protect the environment. The port said the project will expand capacity on the B.C. coast by a third. (The Logic)

Talking point: Vancouver’s port handles as much container traffic as Canada’s next four ports combined, everything from Chinese-made coffee makers heading east by rail to agricultural products from the Prairies packed into containers for export. The nine-plus-year approval process has left the port and its users struggling with capacity, especially amid supply-chain problems during the COVID-19 pandemic, though one existing container-terminal operator has contended that the Roberts Bank expansion isn’t needed. The port authority has said the additional capacity will increase competition and will add resilience to cope with shocks like the pandemic and floods and fires that cut rail service, so ships don’t get stuck waiting to unload.