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Grain movement in southern Saskatchewan will be getting a boost with a new container yard being built in Regina.
In a podcast, David Przednowek, director of sales and marketing with CN Rail, remarked how the building of Intermobil will allow for easier grain movement in southern Saskatchewan.
The intermodal terminal is owned by MobilGrain and is the first privately operated one in Canada. It will be located in the Chuka Creek Business Park in east Regina.
“It will open up the southern prairies on CN more directly to source-loading grain and potentially other commodities, and will compliment CN’s source-loading activities in Saskatoon,” Przednowek said in the podcast.
Source-loading means the empty container gets moved to a CN yard by truck, loaded with grain and then put onto a train to be sent to port.
Saskatoon is CN’s main hub for grain source-loading activities in Western Canada.
CN Rail will service the terminal, which will be able to hold more than 2,000 containers and be able to handle up to 170 trucks. It will be 600 feet wide and a half mile — under a kilometre — wide.
Two gantry cranes will be located at the site to move the containers.
CN Rail will stop trains in Melville and move empty containers from there to Regina.
Last year, CN Rail moved over 1 million tonnes of grain using source-loading.