A project to expand the Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) Company’s Port Windsor terminal got a federal cash boost yesterday.
“By increasing our export capacity at Port Windsor, we’re helping our farmers get Canadian grain to international markets, which is good for economic growth and for global food security,” said Pablo Rodriguez, the federal minister of transport.
The federal government will pitch in up to $26.3 million toward the company’s terminal expansion project, it said in a news release.
The expansion will include increased grain storage, greater loading capacity, new grain drying equipment, and the development of “an automated truck kiosk system to expedite complex traffic flows,” the release said.
It’s projected to “significantly increase” the Great Lakes terminal’s export capacity, and alleviate current bottlenecks.
The release said the expansion should “address issues such as idling trucks, waiting times for marine vessels to dock, and locomotives shuttling around railcars for temporary grain storage on-site.”
—Geralyn Wichers is associate digital editor of AgCanada. She writes from southeast Manitoba.
