Sept-Iles is an important transit centre for the region. Plane, ship, train, car and bus are all means of transportation which give an easy access to our town.
AIr Transportation
In the East of Canada, one of the busiest air transportation registered is at the airport in Sept-Iles. Central hub, the place services the towns of Nouveau-Québec and of Labrador, as well as Anticosti Island, The Lower North Shore and the South shore of the St. Lawrence River. It also includes daily links to Québec and Montréal. Modern, the terminal can welcome over one million travellers in transit every year. The airport being position in the axis of transoceanic flights, it can welcome the large transport aircrafts for technical stops or for refueling.
Moreover, companies offer a helicopter service such as Hélicoptères Canadiens East Division (Viking), Héli-Excel, Innukoptères and Héli-Boréal.
The plane companies Aéro Pro, Air Canada Jazz, Air Inuit, Air Labrador, Air Liaison, Airo-Services Sept-Îles, Exact Air, Pascan aviation, Provincial Airlines, and Sept-Îles Aviation, all offer a service adapted to all needs. Source: Transports Canada
LAnd transportation
Road 138 is the land link that unites the municipalities of the North Shore to the important urban centres such as Montreal which is at 915 km west. Sept-Iles has many road transportation businesses which transit between the North Shore, the important centres of Quebec and all of North America. One round trip per day by bus between Havre-St-Pierre, Sept-Îles and Baie-Comeau allows to connect with the network of the company Intercar and Orléans Express.
Rail Transportation
By rail, the QNS&L railway links Sept-Iles to the towns of the Mid-North of Quebec and Newfoundland. Tshiuetin rail transportation manages a railway for the transportation of goods and a passenger service between Sept-Iles and Schefferville (Québec). Tshiuetin rail transportation is the first company of the First Nations to own and manage a railway in Canada. The inauguration in 2008 of the rail cross-docking center of the Port of Sept-Iles and the service offered on a regular basis by the Georges-Alexandre-Lebel railfreight ferry (more than 30 trips in 2008) allow our businesses to have a link with the North American railway network. Source: Tshiuetin rail transportation
maritime Transportation
A weekly liaison with a stop in Sept-Iles allows the transportation of passengers and goods to Anticosti Island and the Lower North Shore up to Blanc-Sablon.
Source: Relais Nordik
The Port of Sept-Îles
Under the responsibility of the Sept-Iles’s Port Authorities, the Port of Sept-Iles is a deep-sea water port located on the north shore of the Gulf of the St. Lawrence, at 650 km from Quebec. It includes a large natural basin with a depth of 80 meters in operation year round. With its strategic position, at the entrance of the gulf and the St. Lawrence Seaway, it has a privilege status and is considered a crossroad of international commerce for bulk merchandise (iron ore, coal, etc.). Also servicing the mining industry of Quebec and Labrador, the Port of Sept-Iles is the most important mineral port in Canada for the tonnage of bulk products handled.
The port facilities in Sept-Iles include two sections: the urban sector, attached to the town, and the Pointe-Noire sector, located on the Marconi peninsula, facing the urban agglomeration. The urban sector is public property (Ports Canada); it spreads on about 9 hectares and is occupied by small and medium businesses linked to the maritime sector. The Pointe-Noire sector, which occupies about 195 hectares in surface area, belong to the IOC mining company; it is mostly used by the heavy industries such as Alouette Aluminum plant and Wabush Mines.
In 2008, 578 ships docked at the port. The total port circulation was of 22.6 million of freight tons, iron representing 19.5 million of tons that is 86% of the total. According to the economic impact studies of the Port of Sept-Iles on the Canadian and Quebec’s economy, the port activity in Sept-Iles generates revenues of more than 300 million Canadian dollars and creates some 8,300 jobs, including 47% direct jobs.
For more information, please contact the Port of Sept-Iles:
Port de Sept-Îles
1, Quai Monseigneur-Blanche
Sept-Îles, QC, G4R 5P3
Phone : 418 968-1231
Fax : 418 962-4445
