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“The ARP is part of our Network


Georgia initiative that brings services from the coast to communities around the state,” said GPA Executive Director Griff Lynch.


Panama Canal Impact


are now creating new opportunities for East Coast ports, and you need a mechanism to get that cargo inland,” said Lisa Wheldon, director for cargo and intermodal rail at JAXPORT. “Rail is a perfect fit because it allows ports to get more throughput through their existing footprints.”


“It is no accident the GPA is


constructing rail capacity as the demand for rail is growing.” -- Jimmy Allgood, GPA.


Jacksonville has customers


who bring their Asia imports through the port and use their distribution centers and third-party facilities to transload cargo into 53-foot domestic containers for two- day rail access to Chicago and other inland rail destinations. Jacksonville’s Intermodal Container Transload Facility provides ocean carriers and shippers with direct container routing through five day a week service into the Atlanta market via CSX. The Port of Montreal has


The expanded Panama Canal has made it easier to import Asian goods through east-coast ports over the last couple of years, leading to increased volumes there, and intermodal connections are proving crucial to attracting and moving cargo that was once offloaded in the west. “What


have been


traditionally West Coast volumes moving inland


made its name through a rail network covering seven miles and over 62 miles of dockside track. These tracks are linked to Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific (CP) yards, which service thought Canada the United States. “Freight


trains are


prepared by port authority employees, then brought by locomotive from the port to the rail interchange zone that connects them to CN and


“Freight trains are prepared by port


authority employees, then brought by locomotive from the port to the rail


interchange zone that connects them to CN and CP locomotives. ” -- Tony Boemi, MPA.


CP locomotives,” said Tony Boemi, vice president for growth and development at the Montreal Port Authority (MPA). “Containerized traffic arriving at


the port from


Central Canada and the US Midwest are connected to port locomotives then brought to a container or grain terminal, or to the client.” The Port of Montreal will be investing $42 million


in enhancements


tp its intermodal network, increasing its handling


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capacity by 20 percent, and allowing the port to improve rail services to the of Midwest. Expansions just getting under way at the port’s Viau and Contrecoeur terminals will also include increases to rail capacity. “Connected to both Class railways,


the Canadian


National and Canadian Pacific, our rail partners, provide efficient and reliable service, offering two daily departures to and from major Midwest markets,” said Boemi.


Critical Midwest Connections


Intermodal connections to the Midwest and other regions are crucial to attracting both


“What have been traditionally West Coast volumes moving inland are


now creating new opportunities for East Coast ports, and you need a


mechanism to get that cargo inland.” -- Lisa Wheldon, JAXPORT.


import and export cargo. “Rail services provided by CSX and Norfolk Southern, along with trucking companies, play a vital role in efficiently moving cargo


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