After an already eventful first year at the helm, Julie Gascon now finds herself navigating the Port of Montreal through the daunting moving sands of the Trump tariff war. In an interview with Maritime Magazine, she suggested that this is additional incentive amid global economic and supply chain challenges to move resolutely forward especially with the Contrecœur container terminal project, the port’s biggest undertaking in modern history to enhance its competitiveness as a key gateway to North America.