Sturgeon County’s Deputy Mayor Neal Comeau speaks at the Dec.17 Cando Rail media advisory. Photo by James Bonnell.
The new terminal will provide additional rail capacity to Alberta’s Industrial Heartland.
Cando Rail Services and CN Railway have partnered to build a new rail terminal just across the river from Fort Saskatchewan. The terminal is centrally located in Alberta’s Industrial Heartland west of CN’s Beamer Spur, south of Canada Kuwait Petrochemical and southwest of Pembina Pipelines Redwater Fractionation site. Phase one of the terminal will utilize a loop-track system which will enable storage of up to 1900 railcars with the potential to expand to 5,000. Initial work on the site has already begun with full completion of the facility expected by the end of 2020.
“We’re delighted to welcome Cando as an integrated business partner that will increase access to national and global markets,” said Sturgeon County’s Deputy Mayor Neal Comeau at a media advisory on Dec. 17. “Cando’s investment in Alberta’s Heartland will allow industrial facilities in the heartland to concentrate on their core business while partnering with Cando to access increased transportation and logistics solutions. World class rail infrastructures will further enhance the competitiveness of Sturgeon County and Alberta’s Industrial Heartland.”
The new terminal will offer services seven days a week for railcar stain and storage, including unit train storage capability for short or long-term, loaded or empty rail cars. The terminal will also offer various value-added services including rail car switching, air testing, rail car repair and cleaning, translating, material handling, inventory management, car stencilling, placard replacement, AEI tags, DG inspections and graffiti touch-ups.
At the Dec. 17 media advisory Condo Rail’s President and CEO Brian Cornick boasted that this investment will help solidify Cando’s national logistics footprint.
“This is the single largest investment our company has ever made in it’s 40 year history. We’re committed here. When we make a decision to go somewhere we go all in, and we’re all in.”
Cando Rail Services has 39 locations across The United States and Canada. It currently employs 186 people in Alberta. The new terminal is expected to create a dozen new full-time positions at the facility and many more auxiliary position.
“The purpose of Sturgeon Terminal is to move more Alberta oil to more international destinations faster in partnership with CN,” said Cornick. “This is an investment in us and our employees. We’ve been here for forty years as a company we see this as an investment in Alberta and we see this as an investment in Canada because we see Sturgeon Terminal being here forty years from now shipping Alberta product.”
Many members of local and provincial government were in attendance at the Dec. 17 media advisory to speak on the investment.
“When you have this many levels of government in one room you know how important this is,” said Associate Minister of Natural Gas, Dale Nally MLA for Morinville/St. Albert. “It’s not just good for the riding, it’s good for the province and it’s good for the country. Since we got elected we’ve been having a message of getting our energy and getting our resources to market and this is what that’s about.”
Condo Rail Services is an employee-owned company that has provided specialized rail support services across North America for over 40 years. Cando serves many industries including automotive manufacturing, fertilizer/potash, petroleum, grain products, forest products and intermodal. To learn more about Cando’s business and services and the Sturgeon Terminal visit www.candorail.com.
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