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Old Posted Sep 19, 2008, 5:19 AM
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Originally Posted by trueviking View Post
is our location really an advantage?...it isnt 1910 anymore where everything was put on a train and marched west for days...

let me understand this...stuff is taken off a ship in vancouver and has to go either to the west coast of the US, or the eastern half of canada and the US...why is winnipeg a logical place to process it?.....wouldnt vancouver be that location?...or toronto?

if the goods are going south to the 100m people who live in the west, then it makes no sense to bring it to winnipeg.

if the goods are going to the 200m people on the eastern seaboard, then why is winnipeg not just another marker on the route?...why stop here, unload everything and then reload everything and keep going on the same path you were already on? .....there is nothing north or south of us and goods dont travel east to west anymore, so why wouldnt it all just keep heading east and get processed where everyone lives?

and how does the stuff get to winnipeg to be processed?.....where is everything processed now?

seems like an odd thing to hang your hat on.

There is a whole study by the Trade Council.. which is available to the public, which you should read.
It is called Winnipeg - Canada's Centre for Global Trade It breaks it down into some detail, but I will summarize it.

Fact: Winnipeg is closer to China than Vancouver by air - Winnipeg is looking to maximize it air Cargo Business with economies like China and Russia.


Fact: The Port of Churchill is significantly closer to major northern ports in Asia and Eurpope than Vancouver, Montreal or Halifax. Transporting via Churchill-Winnipeg would save multiple days in shipping.


Winnipeg also currently haddles massive amounts of goods moving east-west (all goods crossing Canada go through RiverCity) and along the Mid-Continent Corridor. The plan is to create a Free Trade Zone at Centre Port where goods could be manufactured with parts arriving in Winnipeg from various places with NAFTA tax prefrence, as is the case in Kansas City.

Kansas is not a coastal city either but has realized significant growth via its Inland Port status. This is the case while the city still does not has the access to Ports in Churchill and Thunder Bay, or the shorter air routes to China for Air Cargo Trade.

Winnipeg has already seen signicant growth in Air Cargo the last while, but it lacks the infrastruce to make it much larger.

CentrePort will have a Multi-Modal facility at the airport to allow trains, plans and trucks to exchange cargo in a quick and efficent manner. There will also be container facilities built, where goods will be managed and send to its proper destination .. be it to Toronto, Russia, Chicago or where ever. It will all be handled at this inland port.

Winnipeg has significant location advantages.. being the centre of the continient, but still close access to foriegn markets and cheap landing fees... while being close to major US markets.

If this project goes through it will be a very big economic driver of the city. Billions of dollars of investment, not including very sizable economic spin offs... added transportation business .. new manufacturing facilities ... the city's increased status as an internation transportaion and business hub are among the major benefits which will be realized.
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