Halifax, Nova Scotia
Stanchion rental in Halifax
Belt posts, steel barricade and printed signs on hire in Halifax and Dartmouth, for cruise arrivals, ferry terminals and waterfront events.
For hire in Halifax
What you can rent
Black Belt Stanchion Rental
Chrome Belt Stanchion Rental
Chrome Rope Stanchion Rental
Gold Rope Stanchion Rental
Black Rope Stanchion Rental
Velvet Rope Rental
Red Carpet Rental
Sign Holder Rental
T-Stand Sign Holder Rental
Galvanized Steel Barricade Rental
Stage Barrier Rental
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Rental prices
Stanchion rental prices in Halifax
Posts + Ropes
Gold post + velvet rope
Price per post, with its velvet rope
- Per day
- $19
- 3-day
- $29
- Weekly
- $39
Posts + Belts
Black post + retractable belt
Price per post, with its retractable belt
- Per day
- $19
- 3-day
- $29
- Weekly
- $39
Delivery, setup and collection are available and quoted on their own lines. The final price is confirmed in your quote.
What Halifax hires
Nobody, then everybody at once.
A queue on this waterfront does not build; it arrives. A ship ties up at the seawall or a ferry drops its ramp, and a gangway that was empty is suddenly the only way off for everyone aboard. The line has to be standing, and the route through it obvious, before the first passenger steps down, because there is no gentle start in which to adjust it. So the hire is laid out for the surge: long straight runs that lead people off the pier, switchbacks that hold a crowd where there is room for one and signs readable by somebody carrying a bag in each hand.
Laid out for the surge
Switchbacks are sized for everyone who comes off together, not for a trickle. A line that copes with the first wave copes with everything after it.
Straight runs off the pier
Belt posts and barricade draw a clear lane from the gangway to the coaches, the shuttles or the street, so the whole crowd moves one way.
Signs for people arriving
Large panels in sign frames name the exits, the transfers and the tour meeting points, printed for the order in the wording the terminal already uses.
Harbour deliveries
Both shores of the harbour.
Terminals and piers are controlled sites, so a drop is planned around the gate a truck is let through and the spot it may stand in while the equipment comes off. Delivery, setup and collection are each priced separately; at a terminal the setup line is often the one that matters most, because the layout has to be finished and walked before the vessel is alongside.
- Halifax
- Dartmouth
- Bedford
- Sackville
- Cole Harbour
- Eastern Passage
- Spryfield
- Clayton Park
- Timberlea
- Fall River
- Tantallon
- Herring Cove
Drops go to the waterfront and terminal sites a Halifax arrival passes through:
- the cruise pavilion and the seawall piers south of downtown
- the ferry terminals on both sides of the harbour
- the boardwalk and the wharves along the waterfront
- the convention halls and harbourfront hotel entrances
- the hilltop fort grounds and the gardens below them
- the university campuses and the harbourside parks in Dartmouth
Send the berth or terminal, the gate a truck may use and the side the passengers come off, and the equipment lands where the layout starts, at the foot of the gangway.
Asked at the waterfront
What Halifax arrival briefs raise.
- What are your stanchion rental prices in Halifax?
- A set of gold posts and velvet rope, or of black posts and retractable belt, is priced alike: $19 for a single day, $29 for three and $39 for seven. Getting the equipment onto the pier, laying it out and clearing it afterwards are each quoted apart from that rate, and a terminal with restricted access is priced on what it actually takes to reach.
- How do you plan a line for a ship that unloads all at once?
- By how many people come down the gangway together and how much space lies between the foot of it and the exit, rather than by floor area. Tell us roughly how full the vessel is expected to be and how passengers leave — on foot, by coach or by shuttle — and the switchbacks and lanes are drawn for that surge.
- Can the equipment stand on a pier in wind off the water?
- Yes, with weighted bases under the belt posts and barricade along the exposed edges. A light base meant for a lobby will not stay put on an open pier, so outdoor runs here are specified heavier, and those bases are listed as a separate item. Say how exposed the berth is when you send the brief.
- Can one order serve a ferry terminal and a cruise berth?
- Yes. Deliveries run on both shores of the harbour, so a hire covering an arrival at a berth on one side and an event on the other is quoted as a single order. Send each site with the gate it is reached through and the sequence they are used in.
- What goes on the signs for arriving passengers?
- Whatever the terminal needs people to find first — exits, coach bays, tour meeting points and the way into town. Panels are printed for the order and fit the sign frames on the same hire, so send the wording and any wayfinding symbols the terminal already uses, and they are matched rather than reinvented.