MONTREAL, Sept. 18, 2017 /PRNewswire/ - CN (TSX: CNR)
(NYSE:CNI) and Ray-Mont Logistics are proud to announce that the
first unit rain bringing agricultural products to Ray-Mont's new
transload facility has arrived in Prince
Rupert, British Columbia.
The first unit train transported canola meal pellets from
Western Canada on CN's line. The
new facility, which officially opened for business on August 31, is currently the only unit train
stuffing facility on Canada's west
coast, helping crops transported by CN from Western and
Central Canada as well as the
American Midwest reach international markets.
"We recognize the importance of making Canadian grain
competitive on the global market," said Doug MacDonald, CN vice
president of bulk. "As such we are pleased to play a role in
innovative supply chain partnerships such as this one that will
benefit the grain industry."
The 10-acre facility includes a 100-car rail loop corridor, a
grain dumper pit, as well as a state-of-the-art conveyance system
and will transload grain and processed grain products from CN
hoppers to ocean liner containers for export. The facility handles
agricultural products transported from the US and Canada in order to meet the increasing demand
for containerized grain in international markets.
Located on Ridley Island,
adjacent to the newly expanded Port of Prince Rupert Fairview
Container Terminal and connected to CN's extensive network,
Ray-Mont Logistics offers a supply chain solution that will change
the containerized agricultural product market in Western Canada and offer unparalleled
opportunity for agricultural commodity exporters.
"Efficient logistics and innovative transloading go hand in hand
and are future-oriented," said Charles
Raymond, president and chief executive officer of Ray-Mont
Logistics International. "With top class partners like CN, this
project will allow our customers, with current and emerging
markets, to grow their exports exponentially - and we are proud to
be an active participant."
CN is a true backbone of the economy whose team of approximately
23,000 railroaders transports more than C$250 billion worth of goods annually for a wide
range of business sectors, ranging from resource products to
manufactured products to consumer goods, across a rail network of
approximately 20,000 route-miles spanning Canada and mid-America. CN – Canadian National
Railway Company, along with its operating railway subsidiaries –
serves the cities and ports of Vancouver, Prince
Rupert, B.C., Montreal,
Halifax, New Orleans, and Mobile, Ala., and the metropolitan areas of
Toronto, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Calgary, Chicago, Memphis, Detroit, Duluth,
Minn./Superior, Wis., and
Jackson, Miss., with connections
to all points in North America.
For more information about CN, visit the company's website at
www.cn.ca.
SOURCE CN