The area near the border of the United States and Canada will see a new transload facility and rail siding built.
Mid Canada Transload Services Ltd. is building the inland port one mile south of Letellier, MB, and seven miles from the U.S. border. The company says the facility will be one of largest privately-owned inland ports in the province. The facility will be constructed on a 250-acre green field site with access to Canadian National and BNSF and will have daily rail service to and from the U.S. and Mexico.
Mid Canada Transload Services credited Emerson Milling Inc. CEO and President Real Tetrault with coming up with the new facility concept. Emerson Milling ships its oat products via CN into the U.S. and Mexico. Mid Canada Transload Services says the product is loaded on CN rail and the rail cars are interchanged at Emerson, MB with the BNSF railway. This led to the idea of building an industrial park to transload other products that travel by rail, but still require a truck to move the product to and from the rail site.
According to Tetrault, "any product that travels more than 10 hours by truck is more cost effective freight when shipped by rail."
Tetrault further said, "We are offering a service to and from our rail site and we will transload the customers' product in a safe and efficient environment. We are also willing to build on this site as our customer may require."
Mid Canada Transload Services Ltd. will also handle other commodities and manufactured products that travel in and out of Manitoba and Saskatchewan by rail.