Richardson International Limited will be expanding eight elevators in western Canada serviced by Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC), a June 26 news release said. The expansion will allow future trains to be moved from these sites under CPKC’s 8,500-foot High Efficiency Product (HEP) model.
“Expanding eight elevators will increase capacity and efficiency, enabling Richardson to further benefit from CPKC’s single-line network reaching Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. We have strongly supported the CP-KCS combination throughout the process and look forward to working with CPKC on additional future opportunities for shared growth,” Darwin Sobkow, Richardson’s president and COO, said in the release.
The release noted Richardson currently ships unit trains from 27 CPKC-served elevators in Canada and one in the northern United States. The newest Richardson elevator at Carmichael, Sask., a greenfield grain elevator commissioned in early 2023, is their first 8,500-foot HEP site.
“Richardson’s supply chain and CPKC’s operation will benefit from added efficiency, capacity and fluidity with this investment. Richardson’s ability to run longer trains will mean more grain shipped per train, tighter cycles and more Richardson trains moving across our expanded, single-line network throughout the season,” John Brooks, CPKC’s executive vice-president and CMO, said in there release.
The release noted work on the elevators in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta will start in the summer of 2023 and be complete by the end of 2024.
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