Québec Port Authority / Administration portuaire de Québec

MERGED 2026-08-06: absorbs former registry id fed-harbour-quebec ('Harbour of Québec', a stale federal-directory label for this same body — identical site portquebec.ca, same source authority, same org_type). The 21 absorbed rows are the ENGLISH editions and carry an -en document id suffix; this org's own 19 pre-existing rows are the FRENCH editions and keep their original keys (v1.2/v1.3 immutability). 40 rows total, 0 duplicate URLs. Vision 2035 is aspirational; page also references a separate 2024-2028 sustainable development plan.

Current this library's internal records: Vision 2035 du Port de Québec (2035)

Completeness

• Document shelf: 40 rows (40 archived · 0 staged · 0 pending · 0 missing)
• Backgrounder: on file
• Strategy-evolution brief: not written yet
• Custody audit: 18 of 40 row(s) audited, all clean
• Last verified: 2026-08-06 · this org has had a full discovery-verification pass (our discovery-verification log)

Endpoints

• Website
• Open data: checked — none found
• API: checked — none found
• RSS: checked — none found
• Newsroom
• FOI / access requests

Document shelf (40 rows)

Backgrounder

Source: this library's internal records — a mechanical research draft, not independently reviewed for publication; reproduced as-is.

Québec Port Authority - backgrounder

Backgrounder / GOV-Q10-WAVE1-d1 / 2026-08-04 / registry row: fed-quebec-port-authority (this library's government-document registry) / lens file for this org's series briefs

Mandate & statutory basis

The Québec Port Authority (Administration portuaire de Québec, APQ) is a Canada Port Authority operating under the Canada Marine Act, S.C. 1998, c. 10. Letters patent issued May 1, 1999 continued the Port Authority under the Act, the mechanism by which the Minister of Transport may incorporate a port authority without share capital "for the purpose of operating a particular port in Canada if the Minister is satisfied that the port is, and is likely to remain, financially self-sufficient, is of strategic significance to Canada's trade, and is linked to a major rail line or major highway infrastructure" (Canada Marine Act port-authority governance provisions, cited via search of laws-lois.justice.gc.ca this review). The Port's own history page states that "the Port becomes independent under the Québec Port Authority (QPA)" in 1983, predating the 1999 continuation under the Canada Marine Act (https://www.portquebec.ca/en/about/history/, fetched this review).

Roles, responsibilities & scope

The Port of Québec handles "nearly 30 million tonnes" of cargo per year, with roughly 25 million tonnes transshipped annually and about 1,000 ship calls per year, connecting Great Lakes and Midwestern U.S. markets to trading partners in some fifty countries (https://business.portquebec.ca/en/port-overview/, fetched this review). The Authority frames its mission around four strategic pillars — community engagement, innovation, environment/climate leadership, and being an employer of choice — under its "Vision 2035" strategic document (https://www.portquebec.ca, fetched this review).

Governance & reporting line

The Board of Directors (conseil d'administration) has six members, "nommés en conformité avec les règles de l'organisation" [appointed in accordance with the organization's governing rules] (https://www.portquebec.ca/a-propos/conseil-dadministration/, fetched this review); the Board includes an Audit Committee and a Governance Committee, and day-to-day operations are led by a Management Committee (Comité de direction) headed by a President and CEO (PDG) (same source). As a Canada Marine Act port authority, the APQ operates outside the federal appropriations system and reports through Transport Canada's shared-governance port authority framework (general Canada Marine Act port-authority structure, cited via search this review; ⚠️ still being checked exact statutory reporting-line wording directly from the Act's Québec-specific letters patent, not independently re-confirmed this review).

Budget scale

The Port of Québec's 2024 operating revenue (produits d'exploitation) reached $63.9 million, described as a record and up from $59.7 million in 2023 — a 7% increase attributed in part to higher rental revenue; operating expenses also rose by nearly $3 million year-over-year (Le Soleil, "Le Port de Québec a «maintenu le cap» en 2024," June 19, 2025, https://www.lesoleil.com/affaires/affaires-locales/2025/06/19/le-port-de-quebec-a-maintenu-le-cap-en-2024-DLT4GYH4VVG6ZGRXGQIWDRFYH4/, citing the Port's Vice-President of Finance). The Authority's own summary consolidated financial statements for 2024 are also registered (https://www.portquebec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Financial-statements-Summary-APQ-2024-English-1.pdf) but could not be text-extracted by this tool this review; the Le Soleil figures above are used as the confirmed budget-scale citation instead.

Institutional history

The Port's own history page traces its governance lineage from the Maison de la Trinité, created in 1805 to regulate maritime traffic, through the Commission du Havre de Québec [Harbour Commission of Québec], created in 1858, which absorbed the Maison de la Trinité's powers in 1875; the Port "becomes independent under the Québec Port Authority (QPA)" in 1983, and was continued as a Canada Port Authority by letters patent under the Canada Marine Act on May 1, 1999 (https://www.portquebec.ca/en/about/history/, fetched this review, supplemented by search-confirmed detail on the 1999 letters patent date).

Duplicate-entity flag for the registry maintainer: this backgrounder's registry row (fed-quebec-port-authority, website https://www.portquebec.ca) and the separately-registered fed-harbour-quebec ("Harbour of Québec," website https://www.portquebec.ca/en) point to the same live domain and the same "Vision 2035" strategic document (https://www.portquebec.ca/en/about/2035-vision/ vs. https://www.portquebec.ca/a-propos/vision-2035/, per this library's government-document registry), and both registry rows carry an operator note flagging the other as a possible duplicate. This review's research strengthens that read: the Port's own English-language history page uses "Commission du Havre de Québec" — literally "Harbour Commission of Québec" — as the name of the 1858-1983 predecessor body that became today's Québec Port Authority, which is consistent with "Harbour of Québec" being an alternate/historical English rendering of the same present-day organization rather than a distinct still-operating entity. Per the assignment's instructions this is flagged for the registry maintainer's decision only; no merge or CSV edit was made.

Strategy evolution brief

No strategy evolution brief written for this org yet.