Talks to explore a sustainable year-round shipping season at Canada's northernmost, deepwater port are set to get underway, following an agreement between the port's ownership group and a Montreal-based dry bulk shipping company.

The Port of Churchill in northern Manitoba, which has a brief operational window each summer, is owned and operated by Arctic Gateway Group, a partnership of dozens of First Nations and Hudson Bay communities.

It signed a memorandum of understanding with Fednav, an international dry bulk shipping company, to evaluate a sustainable and commercially supported year-round shipping season for the port, Arctic Gateway said in a Friday news release.

Fednav operates a fleet of about 120 vessels that deliver more than 30 million tonnes of cargo each year, and it has dec

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