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“This facility strengthens the Port of Prince Rupert as a
world-class gateway while creating lasting economic
opportunities for communities across Canada.”
PRPA
CANXPORT is the first in a series of major projects to come online at the Port of Prince Rupert as part of a $3 billion expansion to grow the Gatewa.
to come online at the Port of Prince Rupert as part of a $3
billion expansion to grow the Gateway, with CANXPORT
contributing up to 400,000 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs)
of rail-to-container transloading capacity to the Port annually, with the ability to increase capacity to 750,000 TEUs
for bulk and breakbulk commodities in the future.
“The CIB’s $150 million investment enabled new trade
capacity, created long-term jobs for Indigenous and local
communities and strengthens Canada’s ability to compete
in global markets,” said Ehren Cory, CEO, Canada Infrastructure Bank. “By improving the movement of goods,
CANXPORT will support economic growth and productivity for years to come.”
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According to Slocombe the Port of Prince Rupert o昀昀ers
the advantage of being able to receive such commodities at a
much larger scale.
CANXPORT is built around the ability to bring trains dedicated to carrying a single commodity, and the facility can
immediately load product into containers that go directly to
the port’s Fairview container terminal.
The PRPA CEO added that the Fairview terminal has the
capacity to handle 1.6 million twenty-foot-equivalent units of
containers per year and the CANXPORT facility can increase
that to two million, just from the 昀氀ow of additional tra昀케c.
“(CANXPORT will be), if it’s not the largest in North
America, it’s going to be in the top few.”
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