Meet the first 3 women training to work one of Port Saint John's most dangerous jobs

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,

This story was originally published on  CBC News. To read the rest of this news worthy story, please visit https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/port-saint-john-dp-world-west-side-jobs-nb-1.6051697?cmp=rss.

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