North and somewhere like BC
is stark. “When you look at
doing business in the north,
which is where our roots
are, it’s quite different. In the
NWT and Nunavut there are
few roads to the communi-
ties, a lot of it is fly in fly out,
ice roads or sea lift,” Stewart
adds.
BBE is consistently trying to
stay competitive with other
logistic companies. “For us
to stay competitive, it’s being
able to price accordingly and
make sure the services are
reliable,” Stewart says. “The
other part of it is technology…
integrating it into your supply
chain is critical,” she adds.
BBE utilizes a proprietary
freight forwarding software
called FLMS and is currently
the only northern company in
their industry with this tech-
nology and expertise.
Over the past few years, BBE
has taken on a myriad of ex-
citing projects. Besides vari-
ous sea lift projects into the
high arctic and moving parts
in and out of Afghanistan, in
2009 and 2010 the firm con-
tracted and ran a port in Van-
couver with their sister com-
pany Northern Transportation
Company (NTCL). “NTCL
is a tug and barge operator.
They depart out of Hay River
in the Northwest Territories
and they sail up the Macken-
zie River and deliver cargo to
communities all up and down
the river and then out into the
western arctic,” Stewart says.
“They’ve been in business
pushing 80 years,” she adds.
Additionally, BBE works with
Husky Energy and Cono-
coPhillips in the Sahtu Region
of the Northwest Territories,
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