Asia Pacific Gateway
This project advances a broader understanding of Gateway through research focused on soft infrastructure, value-added development and through stories illustrating the flow of goods, people and capital between Canada and Asia. For more information, visit the Asia Pacific Gateway website.
The report explores how organizations and stakeholder dynamics contribute to the adoption of innovation in gateways through a comparative assessment of the situation in two of North America’s major West Coast Gateways – the Port of Vancouver, British Columbia, and the twin ports of Los Angeles/ Long Beach (LA/LB), California. The research approach consists of the identification and...
August 04, 2009
The summary of a workshop organized by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada to discuss concepts and issues raised in a commissioned paper by Prof. Claude Comtois, Senior Fellow of the Asia Pacific Foundation and Professor at the University of Montreal.
October 26, 2007
A survey of the Asia-related businesses of accounting and legal firms in Vancouver. The purpose of the survey was to determine the role that Vancouver-based business intermediaries play in trans-Pacific trade and investment, and the prospects for growth in this kind of activity.
May 09, 2007
This study addresses the Atlantic Gateway initiative, and how it relates to Canada’s global trading position as a national policy priority. The Atlantic Gateway initiative is global in reach, and national in impact. Like its twin the Asia Pacific Gateway, it combines issues of ocean-based transportation, port development and infrastructure, and inter-modal rail and trucking. The policy issue is...
November 30, 2006
The Oct. 9, 1999, APFC-hosted Roundtable discussed ways to strengthen trade and investment beween BC and Asia Pacific.
February 15, 2000
