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The operators of the rail line to Churchill say a honeycomb form, seen here empty, then filled with crushed rock, is central to their rehabilitation of the rail line over muskeg.

Churchill port on two-year hiatus

Operator says ambitious rail rehabilitation will be key to future success

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm November 5, 2021

It’s going to be awhile before the next ship is loaded at the northern Manitoba Port of Churchill. About two years, according to Sheldon Affleck, chief executive officer of the Arctic Gateway Group (AGG). The group consists of 29 Indigenous and a dozen non-Indigenous communities that own and operate the 627-mile rail line from The

Markets

Port of Churchill out of commission for two years

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm October 27, 2021

The sight of grain vessels being loaded at the Port of Churchill in northern Manitoba won’t happen for two years, according to Sheldon Affleck, chief executive officer of the Arctic Gateway Group (AGG). The group consists of 29 Indigenous and a dozen non-Indigenous communities that own and operate the rail line from The Pas to

Other

Rail service to Churchill set to resume as line reopens

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm November 2, 2018

CNS Canada – After being shut down for 18 months, rail service to Churchill, Man. officially reopened on Nov. 1. The northern Manitoba community and deep water port on Hudson’s Bay lost its only land link to the rest of Canada in May 2017 when flooding and washouts severed the line. Omnitrax, which had owned

Opinion

Opinion: The Great Canadian Grain Robbery

If you can’t identify the problem then you can’t provide a solution

By Ken Sigurdson May 7, 2018

Allan Dawson, in the April 12 edition (Putting a price tag on the grain backlog), continues to defend a false narrative of ‘blame the railways.’ The information provided by Ken Larsen in his National Farmer’s Union op-ed on March 22 was confirmed by a highly respected journalist for the Western Producer, Brian Cross, who noted

Crops

Churchill possibly to return to shipping grain

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm, GFM Network News May 4, 2018

CNS Canada — Grain could once again be shipped out of northern Manitoba’s Port of Churchill if all goes according to plan for a new potential ownership group. “The port has got all of the grain handling equipment and simply said, the first thing we want to do is resume that commercial activity,” said Louis

Opinion, Other

Opinion: OmniTrax not only ones that derailed Churchill

There’s plenty of other culprits in this sad story 

By Ian Robson January 15, 2018

For over 100 years, the Port of Churchill on Hudson Bay was the gateway to northern Manitoba and communities in Nunavut. Served by 820 kilometres of railway line from The Pas, it shipped western grain to European markets until the port was stranded, then closed, and the hundreds of remote northern communities along the railway

Editorial, Opinion, Other

Editorial: On a (rail)road to nowhere

By Gord Gilmour November 23, 2017

The Port of Churchill and the rail link to the south has been much in the public eye of late, most recently with word a Toronto financial group is partnering with local First Nations groups to buy the line. The tantalizing promise of Churchill has always been just over the horizon, it would seem. On

The locks of the Welland Canal, on the St. Lawrence Seaway.

News

A wave of optimism in advance of seaway opening

The Great Lakes shipping pipeline will be opening for the season later this month

By Alex Binkley March 15, 2017

Optimism abounds for the 2017 navigation seasons on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway. The seaway will open March 20 followed five days later by the American Soo locks between Lakes Superior and Huron and the 2017 navigation season on the Great Lakes will be fully underway. While the seaway finished down by 3.1

While some are calling on the federal government to nationalize the Port of Churchill, others say no matter who owns the facility, its grain shipping days are done.

Local news

Whither the Port of Churchill?

Amid calls for a new owner or nationalization, some say no matter who owns the facility,  companies won’t export grain through Canada’s only deepwater, arctic seaport

By Allan Dawson December 22, 2016

Time is running out for the Port of Churchill say its supporters, but according to others it can’t be saved. They say its fate was sealed Aug. 1, 2012, when the Canadian Wheat Board’s (CWB) monopoly died. “It is urgent,” Churchill-Keewatinook Aski MP Niki Ashton said Dec. 15 in an interview after calling for the

Local news

North asks AMM to support Port of Churchill

Resolution asks AMM to lobby to ensure port stays open for 2017 shipping season

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 1, 2016

The Association of Manitoba Municipalities wants the province and federal government to make revitalizing the Port of Churchill and ensuring operations of the rail line to the northern town their top priority. The town of Churchill’s mayor and council asked delegates for support, bringing an emergency resolution to last week’s municipal leaders’ convention in Winnipeg.

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures turn lower

U.S. grains: Soy futures dip as traders await China sales; corn, wheat sag

Seeds Canada announces Dan Wright as new CEO

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