Yearly Resupply

Late summer is the time of delivery via sealift for heavy and non-perishable items, and heating fuel and gas for Kugluktuk and other Arctic communities. For a few years now the large ships from Montreal have been able to make it and ease what was previously only done by the barges from Hay River through the MacKenzie River and the western route. Fuel is delivered for the whole year because after freeze up only planes can resupply the communities at a very high cost.