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6/14/2022
Bioveld Canada, the Hamilton Oshawa Port Authority (HOPA) and GIO Railways Corp. have approved a switching agreement that will return rail service to the Thorold Multimodal Hub in Ontario, Canada.
Under the agreement, GIO Rail will use existing CN rail infrastructure at the hub to transload cargo. The new capabilities will help attract more industrial customers looking to move goods through southern Ontario, HOPA officials said in a press release.
The rail infrastructure has not been used at the hub in more than 20 years, said Justus Veldman, managing partner at Bioveld Canada, which owns the hub site.
The hub is a 200-acre, multimodal industrial complex in Niagara, next to the Welland Canal. It offers marine, rail and highway access, as well as more than 500,000 square feet of indoor warehouse and outdoor storage space configured to a wide variety of operations. Rail users would have access to the site’s transload, integrated warehousing and rail-car storage capacity.
Hub operators plan to add marine-rail connections, a reactivated gantry crane and rail scale to the facilities. They see the potential for forest products, liquid bulk, plastics and metals and raw materials for the construction and manufacturing industries to move the most through the hub.