The founding member of the NorTerra Group of Companies, Northern Transportation Company Limited ("NTCL") serves the North not just as a key supplier of marine transportation services, but also as a vital link between a pioneering past and a promising future. Since its small tugs and wooden barges first sailed the Athabasca, Slave and Mackenzie Rivers in 1934, the company has grown to become a pan-Arctic power in marine transportation.

MV Keewatin departing the Port of Churchill, Manitoba

Mobile drilling rig modules destined for the North Slope of Alaska

Based in Hay River, Northwest Territories, NTCL's large, modern fleet of 12 mainline tugs, more than 90 barges and two Arctic Class II charter supply vessels cover nearly 6000 kilometers of northern shipping routes, traveling north along the Mackenzie River nearly 1200 kilometers to reach Tuktoyaktuk on the shores of the Beaufort Sea. From there, the route stretches from Point Barrow, Alaska to the west all the way to the Boothia Peninsula in Nunavut. In 2006, NTCL re-opened its shipping route north from the Port of Churchill to serve the Kivalliq region in Nunavut. In the same year, the company re-opened its historical shipping route to Fort McMurray, Alberta, from where NTCL first started shipping to Canada's Arctic in 1934. NTCL opened an office in 2005 in Halifax to service a busy marine market on the Atlantic coast and the resource development market in Nunavut.

NTCL offers a broad array of supporting equipment, facilities and services: a large, inland shipyard with a Syncrolift facility, a fully modern high pressure steel fabrication shop, a large freight handling facility, complete with heavy-lift cranes and ISO containers, a fully-equipped heavy and light duty mechanical services shop, industrial and marine supplies including spill containment equipment and supplies, equipment rentals and leases and electronic sales and services.

In addition to the main Hay River head office, shipyard and freight handling facilities and the East Coast office in Halifax, NTCL has offices and facilities in Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk and offices in Norman Wells, Cambridge Bay, Iqaluit, Calgary and Anchorage, Alaska, reflecting the broad area across which it provides marine services. NTCL can deliver dry cargo and fuel efficiently and cost-effectively throughout its extensive northern network.

For further information on NTCL, please visit our website at www.ntcl.com.