The Port of Stephenville (formerly Port Harmon) is located in Stephenville, Newfoundland Canada. The port services international and national ships, fishing, aggregate, container and special freight. Port of Stephenville is capable of accommodating most vessels, freight handling, storage and trans-shipments, and has a Custom Bonded Warehouse facility on the dock. Port of Stephenville is directly connected to the Trans Canada Highway (16 KMs Away) by Highway 490 (1.5 KMs Away). The Stephenville International Airport is adjacent to the Port of Stephenville. The area is also serviced by a regional hospital located in the town. The Town of Stephenville is the service center for a population of over 25,000 and has all services.

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This Stephenville Industrial Park has been showing growth and exciting opportunities for the whole area. With the recent, major expansion of the Northern Harvest Smolt hatchery and the purchase of the metal recycling yard by Newco Metals of St. John’s, the Port of Stephenville is looking forward to a prosperous future, one that will benefit the whole west coast of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Port of Stephenville operates year round and is a sheltered, deep sea and ice-free port. The quay

is 293m x 20m, with 7500 sq m of asphalt paved dock area. The depth is 10.1m at dockside. It

can accommodate ships up to 385m in length. The turning basin has a 450m turning radius, and

has access to 2 boom cranes, a jib crane and 3 different capacity fork lifts of up to 8000 tonnes,

to facilitate loading and unloading of containers and cargo at dock side. The 100,000 sq ft Port

of Stephenville Warehouse Building is newly refurbished and has three 30 ton overhead cranes.

Warehouse, Inventory and port operations personnel are available. In 2015 the management of

Port of Stephenville was taken over by Theresa Keeping and Dale Merkel, with another investor

from Alberta. They are the same people who originally financed the expansion and revitalization of

the port. Since then there has been growth and exciting opportunities for the whole area and the

business has grown from two employees to ten. With the recent, major expansion of the Northern

Harvest Smolt hatchery and the purchase of the metal recycling yard by Newco Metals, the Port of

Stephenville is looking forward to a prosperous future that will benefit the west coast of the province.

The port operates year-round and is a sheltered, deep sea and ice-free port with a large paved

dock and laydown area as well as an adjacent 380 acre industrial park. There is 24/7 tug service

at the port also. The Port of Stephenville envisions itself as an important link in local and regional

supply chains and has real potential as a more efficient and reliable alternative entry port for

containerized freight and perishable goods. The port is well situated to serve the West Coast

and Labrador resource industries and supply storage and transhipment for projects such as the

Muskrat Falls project.

In 2016 the Port of Stephenville entered into an agreement with the international company Duegro

to store materials and equipment from ABB used in the power transfer across the Maritime Link

to Nova Scotia as part of the Muskrat Falls mega-project. The port is using the adjacent 100,000

square foot, newly renovated warehouse to receive and store the equipment as well as arrange the

transportation to the power transfer site at Bottom Brook. This warehouse was formerly used by

Pennecon to accommodate steel fabrication for Hebron GBS, a multi-million-dollar contract.

Newco Metal and Auto Recycling Limited is the largest, oldest, and the only province-wide metal

recycler in Newfoundland and Labrador. The Company was established in 1992 and operates a

metal and auto recycling business throughout the entire province.

Sixty full- and part-time staff dedicate their time and resources to the cleanup and recycling of

car wrecks, scrap metal, and white goods province-wide. Recovered metal goods collected from

various client sites throughout the Province are screened for environmental and health hazards.

Then materials are compacted, loaded, and transported via truck and marine transport to recycling

markets both within the province and mainland Canada. Licensed contractors assist Newco in the

recovery and disposal of restricted and hazardous wastes.

In 2011, under the new ownership and management of Bob Anstey, Newco started to reinvest in

the company and expand into the future. In 2012, Newco purchased a building and property for a

metal recycling collection facility in Happy Valley, Goose Bay. Also in 2012, Newco opened a heavy

metal storage/export yard in Argentia. In 2013, Newco purchased an existing facility in the Corner

Brook region (formerly Rods Auto Salvage), which now operates at the Watsons Pond Industrial

Park. In July 2016, Newco purchased the former Newfoundland recycling facility on Incinerator

Road off the Foxtrap Access Road. This location is being operated as a metal collection facility and

will be the home of the company’s shredder operation.

NEWCO AT THE PORT OF STEPHENVILLE

Recently, strategic growth plans saw Newco purchasing former K&J Metals in Stephenville. They

rebranded the facility as Newco Stephenville, and plan to continue to operate from the Port of

Stephenville. Newco staff are presently running a car crusher and a baler on the site to process

the scrap metal. Road tractors have been contracted to transport that material to markets on the

mainland. At the same time staff are sorting the heavy scrap metal on the site for future export to

world markets.

To properly clean the property and prepare it for future operations Newco has to remove all metal

from the land. Then Newco equipment will reshape, level, and grade the property to increase the

functionality and efficiency of the facility.

A big part of Newco’s business is heavy scrap and P&S (Plate and Structural) scrap metal. Presently,

all that material gets trucked to Argentia for shipping to markets in Europe and Asia. Part of Newco’s

plan for the Port of Stephenville site is to stockpile the material that is collected until volumes have

amassed sufficiently for sale in world markets. This makes the Port of Stephenville an ideal location

as it is strategically located on global trade shipping lanes and lucrative world markets.

Northern Harvest Smolt Ltd. is a modern Atlantic salmon hatchery operating from the Port of

Stephenville, on the West coast of Newfoundland. Northern Harvest Smolt Ltd. is a part of the

Northern Harvest Sea Farms Group, founded in 1985 by the Ingalls family. Northern Harvest Sea

Farms is a proven producer of premium quality farmed Salmon in Atlantic Canada and has grown

to become one of the largest aquaculture companies in North America.

Northern Harvest Sea Farms Group is the world’s first salmon aquaculture company to achieve

four-star Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) status. This signifies that the company’s salmon

processing plants, farm sites, hatcheries and feed mills, are all BAP certified through the Global

Aquaculture Alliance. This makes Northern Harvest the first salmon hatchery in the world to earn

BAP certification since new BAP hatchery standards for finfish, crustaceans and mollusks were

completed in September 2014. The hatchery itself is one of the largest in Canada and currently

includes 3 buildings measuring a combined 8,825 square meters.

Eggs are received eyed from brood stock reared in Prince Edward Island at another Northern

Harvest Sea Farms owned and operated hatchery. The eyed eggs are delivered to the hatchery in

Stephenville where they are incubated for a short period of about 75 days. The incubation area can

hold about 10,000,000 salmon eggs. Once the eggs hatch, the process of moving the fry begins.

They are held in 34 m³ rearing tanks that contain approximately 400,000 fish. The fish are graded

for size throughout the year. During each grading period the fish are transferred to progressively

larger rearing tanks until they reach the larger 280 m³ smolt tanks in the smolt buildings.

Throughout the rearing season great effort is taken to minimalize stress on the fish thereby providing

a healthy environment for growth. The salmon will spend 18 months growing into salmon parr and

eventually into healthy salmon smolt ready to be transferred to marine sites. During the spring and

fall Northern Harvest Smolt Ltd. transfers fish to Northern Harvest Sea Farms marine sites in South-

Eastern Newfoundland for on-growing, until they reach market size. Currently, Northern Harvest

Smolt Ltd. will produce 3.5 to 4 million Atlantic salmon smolt each year.

In December of 2016, Northern Harvest Sea Farms announced they would spend $6 million on

expanding the salmon hatchery at the Port of Stephenville. This expansion will include an additional

smolt building, upgrades to back up power and oxygen supply as well as upgrades to its waste

water management systems. Work is scheduled to begin in July 2017 and the additions will

be operational as early as the spring of 2018. This expansion will provide rearing space for an

additional 1.5 million smolt, increasing overall production by 6,000 tonnes of market product each

year. The expansion to operations in Newfoundland and Labrador will bring the company’s total

salmon production to about 22,000 tonnes annually.