Montréal’s three busiest weeks for logistics: from the ACQ dinner to the Port’s open house

Between the end of October and the middle of November 2026, the Montréal port and trucking community has something on almost every week. For a carrier that works the Port of Montréal or the intermodal yards around the city, this is the period to meet the people behind the terminals, the forwarders and the other trucking companies. Here is the sequence, with what each event is and where it takes place.

Every date below comes from the organiser’s own page or from the shared calendar of CargoM, the logistics and transportation cluster of metropolitan Montréal. Each event has a listing on SwapContainer that links back to its official page.

October 27 · Journée maritime québécoise

The Journée maritime québécoise 2026 is organised by the Société de développement économique du Saint-Laurent (SODES), which brings together the maritime players of the St. Lawrence. For a trucker, the St. Lawrence corridor is where the boxes come from: what is said about shipping lines and port capacity on the river ends up, sooner or later, at the gate.

October 28 · Training for a more resilient supply chain

CargoM and Cégep André-Laurendeau hold a panel on logistics careers in a period of global disruption. Recruiting and training drivers and dispatchers is a shared problem across the industry, and the panel is one of the places where schools and employers talk about it directly.

October 29 · Le Grand Dîner de l’ACQ, 75th anniversary edition

The Grand Dîner « spécial 75 ans » of the Association du camionnage du Québec takes place at Le Salon Richmond 1861 in Montréal. The ACQ is the province’s trucking association. It describes its events as meeting points for trucking professionals and as the place where the profession speaks with one voice. Its next large gathering is the ACQ Congress 2027, from April 8 to 10, 2027, at the Fairmont Le Château Frontenac in Québec City.

November 12 · The Club de Trafic’s Festival des Huîtres

The 81st Festival des Huîtres of the Club de Trafic de Montréal is held on the Grand Quai of the Port of Montréal. The Club de Trafic de Montréal brings together the city’s transport community; it celebrated its centenary in October 2026.

November 16 · Forum Logistique 2026

Forum Logistique 2026 takes place at the Hôtel Bonaventure, downtown. The next day, November 17, HEC Montréal’s Carrefour Logistique and a Québec Logistics Briefing by CITT at the Port of Montréal keep the same audience in town.

November 18 · The Port of Montreal Community Open House

The Port of Montreal Community Open House is an evening of information and conversation with the port’s experts. The same day, in Contrecoeur, the MRC de Marguerite-D’Youville holds its 2026 economic meeting; Contrecoeur is where the Port of Montréal is carrying out its Contrecœur expansion project.

December 3 · CargoM’s members’ evening

The season closes with CargoM’s annual members’ evening, in the Salle Dominic Taddeo at the Port of Montréal.

How to use these weeks

A container swap is a simple idea: one company’s empty becomes another company’s pickup, so one truck visit carries two moves instead of one. What makes it work is not software, it is knowing who drops what, where, and when. These evenings are where that knowledge is exchanged. If you are a dispatcher or an owner in Montréal, pick two of them, bring a colleague, and come back with three names you did not have.

The full list of Montréal events, past and upcoming, is on Montréal on SwapContainer. If a date changes, or if an event is missing, write to info@swapcontainer.com with the link to the official page.