Delta covers three distinct communities — Ladner, Tsawwassen and North Delta — and a lot of working land between them. Roberts Bank, at the city’s western edge, is home to the Deltaport container terminal and the Westshore coal terminal, and BC Ferries’ Tsawwassen terminal is next door. Industrial areas at Tilbury and on Annacis Island hold manufacturing, food processing, warehousing and distribution.
Agriculture remains a major land use. Delta has extensive farmland and large greenhouse operations, many of them growing vegetables for markets across North America.
For businesses like these, the technology problems are mostly about data moving between parties: shipping documents, purchase orders, production schedules, compliance records. Small errors are expensive, and much of the work is still done by hand. That is where automation and well-built internal tools do the most good.