CentrePort Canada

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CentrePort Canada Inc.
Headquarters259 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, MB
Key people
  • Kevin Hooke (Board Chair)
  • Vacant (President & CEO)
CentrePort Canada
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Location
Location Winnipeg and Rosser
Details
Opened2008
Land area20,000 acres (81 km2)
Website https://centreportcanada.ca/

CentrePort Canada is a tri-modal dry port and Foreign Trade Zone located partly in northwest Winnipeg, Manitoba (CentrePort South) and partly in the Rural Municipality of Rosser (CentrePort North), and situated adjacent to the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (YWG). [1] With 20,000 acres (81 km2) of industrial land, it is the largest tri-modal inland port and foreign trade zone in North America. [2] [3]

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The port provides access to tri-modal transportation: (1) rail—three Class I railways, specifically Canadian National (CNR), Canadian Pacific (CPR), and BNSF Railway; (2) air—a 24/7 international air cargo airport; and (3) road—an international trucking hub. [4] CentrePort also offers greenfield investment opportunities for a wide variety of business operations, including distribution, warehousing, and manufacturing. The portion of the inland port that falls within Rosser has access to a Special Planning Area to streamline the land development approval process. [4]

CentrePort Canada Way is a 10 km (6.2 mi)  expressway that links Winnipeg's Inkster Boulevard to the Perimeter Highway, and allows for 5 minutes to 90 km/h (56 mph). Located near the geographic centre of North America, it serves as a hub for national and international trading corridors, as well as attracting new transportation logistics development to the city area. [5] Moreover, Winnipeg has direct connections to both of Canada's only major Pacific ports, Port of Vancouver and the Port of Prince Rupert, as well as a direct connection to Churchill, Manitoba, a major grain export facility and the only Canadian deep-water Arctic port.

Governance

The CentrePort Canada Act
Parliamentwinnipeg manitoba.jpg
Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
Citation C.C.S.M. c. C44
Enacted by2nd Session, 39th Legislature
Assented toOctober 9, 2008
Legislative history
Bill titleBill 47
Amended by
SM 2010, c. 33, s. 75
Status: Amended

CentrePort Canada was created in 2008 by provincial legislation called the CentrePort Canada Act, which established its mandate and designated land to the port. [6] The Act also defines the structure of the board of directors and includes nominees from 11 nominating organizations and 4 directors at large. [7]

Since then, CentrePort has worked closely with related departments of the Manitoba government, including Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation, Department of Economic Development and Jobs, Manitoba Municipal Relations, and Manitoba Agriculture and Resource Development. [1] Under The Planning Act, the portion of the inland port that falls within Rosser is a Special Planning Area, wherein land usage is guided by the Inland Port Special Planning Areas Regulation 49/2016 (Development Plan and Zoning By-law). [4] [8] The planning authority for lands within this area is the provincial Minister of Indigenous and Municipal Relations. [8]

CentrePort has also engaged with several federal departments, including Western Economic Diversification, Transport Canada, Global Affairs, and International Development. [1]

CentrePort is now one among a growing number of inland terminals in North America and faces competition from other prairie centres, such as Port Alberta in Metro Edmonton and the Global Transportation Hub in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Marketing partners of CentrePort include (among others): [1]

Operations

CentrePort Canada provides access to tri-modal transportation: [3] [4]

  1. three Class I railways, specifically Canadian National (CNR), Canadian Pacific (CPR), and BNSF Railway;
  2. a 24/7 international air cargo airport (James Armstrong Richardson International); and
  3. an international trucking hub, which includes two of Canada’s largest companies—Bison Transport and TransX. [9]

CentrePort also offers greenfield investment opportunities for a wide variety of business operations, including distribution, warehousing, and manufacturing.

CentrePort also has partnerships with post-secondary institutions, namely Red River College (RRC) and Manitoba Institute of Trades & Technology. For agribusiness, there are specialized industry training programs at the University of Manitoba (Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences/ Transport Institute), University of Winnipeg (Richardson College for Environment and Science), and RRC (Paterson GlobalFoods Institute).

The portion of CentrePort Canada within the Rural Municipality of Rosser has been established as the "Inland Port Special Planning Area," wherein land use is regulated by the Development Plan and Zoning By-law, [8] helping to expedite planning and the land-development approval process. [10]

In 2020, CentrePort Canada announced a new project to be completed by the end of 2021: InkSport Business Park, a $65-million, 68-acre industrial park built by Whiteland Developers. [11]

Location

Located near the geographic centre of North America, Winnipeg—therefore CentrePort—serves as a hub for national and international trading corridors, as well as attracting new transportation logistics development to the city area. [5] Winnipeg has connections to both of Canada's only major Pacific ports, Port of Vancouver and the Port of Prince Rupert, in addition to a direct connection to Churchill, Manitoba, a major grain export facility and the only Canadian deep-water Arctic port.

CentrePort Canada is therefore located at the hub of key economic gateways.

CentrePort connections to key gateways [3]
Gateway to theCorridorInternational access
North Staging area for northern Canada to Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and the Mediterranean
EastPorts of Thunder Bay, Montreal, & Halifax

Atlantic Gateway

to Europe, the Middle East, and Asia
West Asia-Pacific Gateway

Port Metro Vancouver & Port of Prince Rupert

to China and the Pacific Rim
South Mid-Continent Trade & Transportation Corridor

Ports of Houston & New Orleans

Ports of Manzanillo & Lázaro Cárdenas

to the United States, Mexico, and Latin America

Companies and industry sectors

CentrePort's 20,000 acres (81 km2) is principal for any degree of development and is particularly beneficial for six key industry sectors: [12]

Since its inception, 100 new companies have chosen to locate at the inland port and CentrePort has 2000 acres in active development. CentrePort is home to various mining and heavy equipment manufacturers & suppliers including, ISCO Industries, [13] SMS Equipment, [14] and Cassidy Manufacturing.

Regarding the transportation and logistics sector, CentrePort is home to two of Canada’s largest companies, Bison Transport and TransX; houses operations for Gardewine, Payne Transport, Paul’s Hauling, Meyers Bros Trucking, 4Tracks Ltd., etc.; and houses new facilities by FedEx, Freight Canada, Pacific Coast Express, and Rosedale Transport.

New company facilities at CentrePort include:

Operations and tenants at CentrePort [9] [16]
CompanySector
49 North Lubricants
Air Unlimited
Altima Cabinets
Ampjack Industries Ltd.
Arctic IceAgribusiness & food processing
Arctic Beverages [17] Agribusiness & food processing
Bison Transport Transportation & logistics
Boeing Transportation & logistics
Bristol Aerospace Transportation & logistics
C & T Rentals
Cassidy ManufacturingEnergy & mines
Comairco
Conviron
Cosentino Surfaces
Domino's Pizza of Canada Ltd. Agribusiness & food processing
Engineered Pipe Group
Eautopia Biological TechnologyAgribusiness & food processing
Fairview Ltd.
Fort Garry Fire TrucksTransportation & logistics
Gardewine North
GE Aviation Transportation & logistics
Goodman Manufacturing
Ipex
Imperial Seed [15] Agribusiness & food processing
Insituform Energy & mines
ISCO Industries [13] Energy & mines
J&R Hall TransportTransportation & logistics
Kaycan Ltd.
Kuehne + Nagel Transportation & logistics
La-Z-Boy Inc.
Lowry Manufacturing & Sales
MacDon Industries Ltd. Agribusiness
Major Drilling Energy & mines
Medline Industries Biomedical/biotechnology
NJ Industries
North West Company
Pacific Coast ExpressTransportation & logistics
Paterson GlobalFoods Agribusiness & food processing
Payne TransportationTransportation & logistics
Peak of the Market Agribusiness & food processing
Ply Gem
Rosedale TransportTransportation & logistics
Set Point Refrigeration
SMS Equipment [14] Energy & mines
StandardAero Transportation & logistics
Stericycle
Superior Forklift
TransXTransportation & logistics
Techtop Canada [18] Transportation & logistics
Trailer Wizards
TS Leasing / TransolutionsTransportation & logistics
United Rentals
Winpak

Winnipeg Airports Authority Campus

The freight terminal of Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (IATA: YWG, ICAO: CYWG) is part of the CentrePort Canada dry port, offering 24/7 worldwide air cargo operations. YWG is ranked #1 in all of Canada for "dedicated freighter aircraft movements."

Major carriers on site include Air Canada Cargo, Canada Post, Cargojet, FedEx, Purolator, and UPS. [5] Moreover, Manitoba holds the 3rd largest aerospace industry in Canada, including Air Canada, which is located at CentrePort, on the Winnipeg Airports Authority Campus. [19]

CentrePort Canada Way

CentrePort Canada Way is a four-lane, 10 km (6.2 mi)  expressway that links Winnipeg's Inkster Boulevard to the Perimeter Highway, and allows for 5 minutes to 90 km/h (56 mph). As Winnipeg is located near the geographic centre of North America, it serves as a hub for national and international trading corridors, as well as attracting new transportation logistics development to the city area. [5]

Plans to build CentrePort Canada Way was announced on 14 April 2009, when Prime Minister Stephen Harper with Manitoba Premier Gary Doer declared at James Richardson Airport that both the federal and provincial governments would contribute CA$212.5 million towards a divided four-lane expressway. [20] In March 2014, the Province of Manitoba announced that it would double CentrePort Canada Way to bypass the Rural Municipality of Headingley and connect directly into the TransCanada Highway (PTH 1). [21] The expressway subsequently opened in November 2013. [20]

The expressway is also situated within about $1 billion in supporting highway infrastructure.

CentrePort Canada Rail Park

Winnipeg is the only major Canadian city on the prairies served by three continental class I railways: Canadian National (CNR), Canadian Pacific (CPR), and BNSF Railway. [3]

A new industrial park named CentrePort Canada Rail Park [22] is in development on 665 acres (2.69 km2) of CentrePort's 20,000 acres (81 km2) of land, located west of the Winnipeg Airport. The Rail Park is currently in development (as of February 2021) and, when complete, will provide rail serviced industrial land for companies engaged in global supply chain activities. The Rail Park is intended to further enhance access to the three Class I rail carriers that are already provided by CentrePort, with CPR and CNR in particular operating significant intermodal yards in Winnipeg. [5]

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