Remote port and industrial yard monitoring in Nanaimo

Local and live

From the Duke Point terminals to Highway 19

Nanaimo's economy runs through its working waterfront. The Port of Nanaimo, with terminals at Duke Point and the Assembly Wharf, generates an estimated $1.2 billion in total economic output a year and supports about 2,900 person-years of direct employment, with the forestry sector alone accounting for 37 percent of the port's jobs. Duke Point itself grew out of a 350-acre industrial park built between 1980 and 1983 around a shipping terminal and sawmill sites, and the ferry terminal there still connects the Island to the mainland for freight that doesn't move by water. Highway 19 ties that industrial area to the rest of Vancouver Island, carrying log trucks, container traffic and freight bound for the port.

Property crime has moved in different directions across categories. Nanaimo RCMP recorded 5,305 property offences in 2025, down 6 percent from 5,632 in 2024, but thefts from vehicles rose 15 percent, to 667 from 578, and thefts from garages, sheds and outdoor storage rose 6 percent over the same period. For a yard storing equipment, trailers or forestry gear outside, that second trend is the one worth watching most closely, even as police credit the arrest of a few prolific offenders with pulling commercial break-ins down.

A sawmill lot, a forestry equipment yard and a distribution warehouse all get the same live coverage from Sigma in Nanaimo. Agents keep an eye on every camera around the clock, every day of the year, and AI person and vehicle detection flags anyone moving around the property after hours. An agent verifies the alert on video, gives a live, instant talk-down through the site's speakers and calls police or your own contacts, with video clips and a written report afterward. Gate Operations adds driver checks and a logged record of every truck using the site.

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