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116 Railroad Avenue Monrovia, CA 9f016 (?l3) 358-4594

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From Canada, with Lumber

In the past four years lumber barge service to the U.S. West coast from British Columbia, Canada,has been expanded from a once a month schedule to an 18 to 19 day cycle with two barges operating by the Maple Leaf Shipping Co. Ltd., a privately owned corporation based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

It was incorporated in Oct. 1976, by the Gregory family of Vancouver with Peter Gregory as president. At that time they operated a once a month service to California, using chartered barges with a capacity of 2.7 million board feet.

ln 1979, the company took delivery of the M.V. Douglas Fli a self-propelled, crewed, lumber/oil fuel carrier. The vessel had been specially designed to operate between British Columbia and California, carrying packaged lumber south and returning north with Bunker C fuel for use in the pulp mills on Vancouver Island.

The vessel has a total lumber capacity of 4.3 million b.f. net. The oil tanks can carry 45,000 barrels.

Lumber is loaded at two ports in British Columbia

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