Port of Churchill offers farmers a solution for grain surplus

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Published on Thursday, January 30, 2014

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The Port of Churchill announced that it is busy developing its program for the 2014 shipping season and has capacity to ship increased volumes of grain in the coming year.

While record levels of grain moved through the Port of Churchill last year, it still has greater capacity for farmers’ surplus product. In recent months, grain farmers have reported significant product backlog, attributed to a shortage of transportation resources.

Merv Tweed, president of OmniTRAX Canada (the company that owns the port) says 2013 was a very successful year for the company in regards to grain shipments.

“We were very busy in the latter half of our traditional shipping season [October and early November] but from the start of our season in mid-July through the end of September, we had the capacity to move more product," he continued. "As the Port of Churchill starts booking for the 2014 shipping season, we want farmers to know that we have the resources they need to transport their product out through Hudson’s Bay.”

The Port of Churchill is Canada’s only deep water Arctic seaport. Its location on the western coast of Hudson’s Bay provides easy access to shipping routes, providing Canadian farmers with a convenient alternate path to move their product to more global markets. It is North America’s only deep water Arctic seaport, offering a way to ship products to and from Europe, Russia, Africa, Mexico, South America, and the Middle East.

With files from release