Port-area and yard monitoring in Thunder Bay

Local and live

Along the port, the CP mainline and Highway 11/17

The Port of Thunder Bay is the largest outbound port on the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway system and the system's western terminus, moving grain, coal, potash, lumber, steel and machinery through facilities such as Keefer Terminal and about 400 ships a year. The Canadian Pacific Kansas City mainline runs directly through the city, Canadian National also serves it, and both offer intermodal connections by rail, truck and ship. The Trans-Canada Highway reaches Thunder Bay from both the Highway 11 and Highway 17 approaches, and three Canada-US border crossings, Pigeon River, Fort Frances-International Falls and Rainy River-Baudette, are reachable from the city on provincial highways.

Equipment left in storage well outside town is an easy target. On May 10, 2025, Thunder Bay OPP say someone broke into a storage trailer about 3 to 4 kilometres off Highway 527 on Escape Lake Road and took a Caterpillar engine starter, a John Deere excavator alternator and a skidder alternator, around $3,000 worth of parts, in a Chevrolet Avalanche. Thunder Bay Police Service's 2025 annual report also recorded a 57 percent jump in property-related crime citywide, from 4,290 incidents in 2024 to 6,757. For a forestry or trucking yard, an unwatched storage trailer or equipment row is exactly what that kind of theft targets.

Sigma gives a Thunder Bay yard live eyes without a guard walking the property. Cameras with AI person and vehicle detection flag anyone near the equipment rows or fence line after hours, and an agent checks the live video, gives a live, instant talk-down through the site's speakers and calls OPP or your contacts if the person stays. Yard Operations adds parking reports and damage inspections for trucks and trailers waiting on a load.

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