Churchill (Port)
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Canada’s Arctic Port Set for First Grain Shipments Since 2015
Canada’s arctic port of Churchill is set to resume its first grain shipments since 2015 after a group backed by investor Prem Watsa stepped in last year to buy the facility and a related rail line linking the northern town with the rest of Manitoba. The 88-year-old port on the shores of Hudson’s Bay will resume operations in the next few months, reducing by several days the shipping time to deliver grains to Europe and the Middle East across the Atlantic Ocean.
Residents rail against U.S. company as Port Churchill’s future is on the line
Put aside lumber and milk for a moment. Canada’s ugliest cross-border business brawl is unfolding along a rickety railroad, balanced on permafrost, in northern Manitoba. Whoever wins gets control of Canadian shipping out of the Arctic — and locals say that control should no longer rest with the U.S. company that has held it for 20 years. “You’re holding Manitoba hostage,” one angry farmer told executives of OmniTrax Inc., which owns Canada’s only Arctic shipping route, at the Hudson Bay Route Association’s annual meeting in April. The meeting was a rare chance for the port’s users to vent directly at the Denver-based company. Predictably, it got heated quickly. The very survival of the Arctic port in Churchill, Man., is on the line after the port closed last year. And the future of the town, population 800, hinges on the port’s. http://business.financialpost.com/news/transportation/residents-rail-against-u-s-company-as-port-churchills-future-is-on-the-line
Efforts continue to re-open port of Churchill
A group of northern Manitoba community leaders remain hopeful the grain shipping season for Churchill can be restored. Omnitrax announced last week the shipping season, which usually starts in August, has been cancelled this year. A group of community leaders met Wednesday with natural resources minister Jim Carr in Winnipeg. The leaders, calling themselves the Northern Delegation, called for an urgent co-ordinated action plan to salvage the 2016 season. The community officials say the business case for using Churchill to ship grain and other commodities to Europe and other markets remains very strong. The Delegation is requesting a follow-up meeting within ten days with key federal officials in Ottawa to continue to resolve the issue. The delegation includes the towns of Churchill, Gillam, the Pas and the city of Thompson, the Hudson Bay Route Association and northern Manitoba first nations. http://www.620ckrm.com/2016/08/04/54557/
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