British Columbia · Metro 2.7 million · On-site & remote
Sales, Logistics & AI Consulting in Vancouver
Asian exporters default to Vancouver and are usually right to. The mistake I see is stopping there, landing goods in Vancouver and assuming national distribution follows. It does not. The population is in Ontario and Quebec, four thousand kilometres east, and the inland freight cost is the number that decides whether your landed price works.
The market
What Vancouver actually runs on
Canada's Asia-Pacific gateway and its largest port by cargo volume. Everything about the trade economy here is oriented across the Pacific, which makes it the natural landing point for Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Southeast Asian goods entering Canada.
Infrastructure
Port of Vancouver: Canada's largest port by total cargo volume,Deltaport and Vanterm container terminals,Vancouver International Airport (YVR) with substantial trans-Pacific cargo,CN and CP rail heading east from the terminals
Trade corridors
Services
What I am usually brought in for here
logistics-consulting
canadian-joint-venture-partner
sales-management-consulting
marketing-consulting
Questions
Straight answers
We import from China into Vancouver. Why would we need representation?
Because landing the container is the easy part. Finding the buyers, holding the account relationships and running the sales cycle in English across five time zones is where entries stall. That is the part I do.
Can you cover BC if you are based in Ontario?
For account management, distributor development and reporting, yes. That work is remote by nature. For weekly on-site presence in Vancouver you want someone local, and I will tell you that rather than bill for travel that does not serve you.
Contact
Tell me what you are hiring for
- Call: +1 519 278 5085
- Email: tim@timarmstrong.ca
- Based: London & Southwestern Ontario, Ontario, America/Toronto (Eastern Time)
- Availability: Available nationally across Canada, on-site, hybrid or remote
- Serving: London · Stratford · Woodstock · Kitchener: Waterloo · Cambridge · Guelph · Brantford · Sarnia · Chatham-Kent · Windsor · Toronto · Mississauga and Canada-wide