CANADIAN Pacific Railway Limited (CP) and Danish shipping giant Maersk have reached an agreement to build and operate a world-class transload and distribution facility in
Vancouver to expand CP's and Maersk Canada's supply chain options for
customers.
The
CP transload facility will be an expansion of CP's existing Vancouver
Intermodal Facility and thus will benefit from turnkey rail infrastructure. The
import transload facility will be operational in 2021.
The
transload facility is designed to apply Maersk's global integrator of container
logistics strategy and will offer customers access to a multi-commodity
transload facility that will rely on the substantial use of rail instead of
truck in the Vancouver market, as CP will shuttle containers to and from the
ocean terminals via rail, according to a CP statement.
Maersk's
ambition to establish a sustainable supply chain aligns with CP's initiatives
to fight climate change. This compelling combination will provide an effective
and efficient long-term intermodal solution for customers.
"CP's
unique landholdings in Vancouver enable us to bring to market a
first-of-its-kind transload facility that creates tremendous opportunity for
sustainable growth," said CP's president and CEO Keith Creel. "Together
with Maersk, the global shipping leader, we will transform intermodal
transportation in North America."
Omar Shamsie, president of Maersk Canada said: "This
agreement installs more agile supply chain options and capacity to and from
Vancouver for our North American customers.
"Marketplace
fluctuations, e-commerce demands and omnichannel fulfilment are testing every
company - so this integrated logistics solution with CP will clearly elevate
supply chain performance."
Vancouver
warehouse space has been tight in 2020 - which, combined with Vancouver ports
experiencing high utilisations has placed pressure on supply chain performance.
"So
we applied our global integrator strategy to simplify the current situation and
create more end-to-end supply chain solutions by reducing multi-modal handoffs.
We can now offer more responsiveness to the pace of business by giving supply
chain leaders more control of order timing/fulfilment through inland routing
flexibility, better velocity gained from one day savings of rail versus truck
and cost savings through seamless transload operations into domestic 53'
trailers," Mr Shamsie added.
Source
: HKSG / Photo : Cargo Connect.
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