Outreach
Memorandums of Understanding
Port of Haiphong (Vietnam)
Signed: December 3, 2009
Objective: To enhance cooperation between the ports of Haiphong and Halifax as gateways to their respective countries and to mutually recognize that trade between Vietnam and Canada can be facilitated and enhanced through these two ports.
Port of Hamilton (Canada)
www.hamiltonport.ca
Signed: September 17, 2009 
Objective: To help establish, support and promote “Short Sea Shipping” and international trade by providing a competitive advantage to businesses utilizing the St. Lawrence Seaway to link Hamilton and Halifax with international markets, and providing a more efficient, timely, cost effective and environmentally friendly means of transportation of goods in the international marketplace.
The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority (USA)
Signed: July 15, 2009
Objective: To collaborate and support the work of each organization's business development efforts in the promotion and development of short-sea shipping opportunities between the ports of Cleveland and Halifax via the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway.
Odessa Commercial Seaport (Ukraine)
Signed: June 4, 2009
Objective: To identify and generate new business opportunities for the Port of Halifax and Odessa with special emphasis on the promotion of Halifax as a gateway port for Canada and North America, and the Port of Odessa as a gateway port for Ukraine and Eastern Europe via the Black Sea.
Port of Chennai (India)
www.chennaiport.gov.in
Signed: January 28, 2009 
Objective: To engage in a sister port relationship between the Port of Halifax and Chennai that will identify market and business development opportunities that will benefit both ports.
Suez Canal Authority (Egypt)
www.suezcanal.gov.eg
Signed: January 15, 2009
Objective: To undertake joint marketing activities, data interchange, and share market information that promotes the all-water route between Asia and the east coast of North America via the Suez Canal.
St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation (Canada)
www.seaway.ca
Signed: September 21, 2007 
Objective: To increase awareness of the Port of Halifax and the Great Lakes Seaway system as a reliable and efficient gateway to the heartland of North America, and to identify new business opportunities.
Memberships
The Halifax Port Authority holds memberships with the following organizations:
- American Association of Port Authorities
- Association of Canadian Port Authorities
- Atlantic Canada Cruise Association
- Atlantic Provinces Chamber of Commerce
- Atlantic Provinces Economic Council
- Canada-United Kingdom Chamber of Commerce
- Canadian Chamber of Commerce
- Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters
- Chamber of Marine Commerce
- Greater Halifax Partnership
- Halifax Chamber of Commerce
- Halifax Gateway Council
- Halifax Shipping Association
- Highway H20
- Indo-Canadian Chamber of Commerce
- NovaKnowledge
- Retail Council of Canada
- Shipping Federation of Canada
- Transportation Club of Halifax Dartmouth
- World Trade Centre of Atlantic Canada
