Extreme, 16-metre tides aren’t the only super-sized thing about the Port City.
Saint John is Canada’s largest port by volume, handling 28 million metric tonnes of cargo annually.
Everything on the west side docks — from the container ships, to the stacks of containers, to the blue cranes designed to move those containers — is gigantic.
With all those big, moving parts, “you can get squished just as easy as stepping in the wrong place,” said Hanna Graham. “If you don’t watch where you’re going,