They’re getting ready to develop some major industry once that container port comes on line at Fairview Bay, but we’ll have to do some traveling to see what kind of an economic boost we’re providing for North America.
With the container port scheduled to open in the fall of 2007 a number of North American cities are making plans to capitalize on the newest port of call to the Asian continent.
Closest to home, Prince George is preparing to build an inland container port in the BC Rail site and expand their airport to the south, providing for a 10,000 foot runway to spur on economic growth in the BC Northern Interior. With 1 million dollars in provincial seed money in place to design the new transportation link, PG airport officials hope to have the project on track to being completed in time to capitalize on the new opportunities to come from Rupert’s port.
Across the Rockies Edmonton has a dream of becoming a Chicago west, with city, provincial and CN officials looking at developing Edmonton as the Western Canadian hub for transportation. Part of the Edmonton approach will be to build up their infrastructure as far as roads and inland port development go. The key they say is to declare Edmonton as a duty free port to attract industry from around the world to set up shop there to take advantage of the rail line to Prince Rupert. They also say that there is a need to urge the developers of the Port in Prince Rupert to speed up the timetable for expansion, taking advantage of the surge in world trade that could flow through the port of Prince Rupert and on to Edmonton.
Further south of Chicago, CN’s main transportation hub of Memphis, Tennessee is getting ready for the much anticipated opening of the Fairview terminal as well. Officials in Memphis say that as soon as Fairview is open for business, over 75,000 containers will pass through the Pidgeon Park intermodal yard in Memphis. CN officials tell the folks in Memphis that six months after Fairview opens the railroad expects to have transferred 500,000 containers from ships docking through Prince Rupert. It makes for a situation that Memphis plans on taking full advantage of.
The three stories we link to above as well as the video about the Mephis container terminal, provide just a small glimpse at the impact that the port is going to have across the continent, not to mention the changes it might bring to our corner of the transportation corridor that leads to the deep south of the USA.
With the container port scheduled to open in the fall of 2007 a number of North American cities are making plans to capitalize on the newest port of call to the Asian continent.
Closest to home, Prince George is preparing to build an inland container port in the BC Rail site and expand their airport to the south, providing for a 10,000 foot runway to spur on economic growth in the BC Northern Interior. With 1 million dollars in provincial seed money in place to design the new transportation link, PG airport officials hope to have the project on track to being completed in time to capitalize on the new opportunities to come from Rupert’s port.
Across the Rockies Edmonton has a dream of becoming a Chicago west, with city, provincial and CN officials looking at developing Edmonton as the Western Canadian hub for transportation. Part of the Edmonton approach will be to build up their infrastructure as far as roads and inland port development go. The key they say is to declare Edmonton as a duty free port to attract industry from around the world to set up shop there to take advantage of the rail line to Prince Rupert. They also say that there is a need to urge the developers of the Port in Prince Rupert to speed up the timetable for expansion, taking advantage of the surge in world trade that could flow through the port of Prince Rupert and on to Edmonton.
Further south of Chicago, CN’s main transportation hub of Memphis, Tennessee is getting ready for the much anticipated opening of the Fairview terminal as well. Officials in Memphis say that as soon as Fairview is open for business, over 75,000 containers will pass through the Pidgeon Park intermodal yard in Memphis. CN officials tell the folks in Memphis that six months after Fairview opens the railroad expects to have transferred 500,000 containers from ships docking through Prince Rupert. It makes for a situation that Memphis plans on taking full advantage of.
The three stories we link to above as well as the video about the Mephis container terminal, provide just a small glimpse at the impact that the port is going to have across the continent, not to mention the changes it might bring to our corner of the transportation corridor that leads to the deep south of the USA.
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