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Manitoba Boosts ‘Inland Port’ Plan

The government of Manitoba http://www.gov.mb.ca/ hopes to take advantage of Winnipeg’s location near the geographic centre of North America to build an "inland port" to funnel imports through the continent on improved highways and rail links.

Inland port designated, aims to be trade hub

There’s not a heck of a lot there now — mostly empty fields and the odd goose taking a breather before heading south for the winter.

Election offers opportunity to push inland port

But in the months and years ahead those fields northwest of the airport could help Winnipeg become the place it was always meant to be — the gateway not only to the west, but every direction in between.

That process began Wednesday when the Doer government introduced legislation designating the area around Winnipeg’s James Armstrong Richardson International Airport as an inland port.

The plan is to use the airport and its geographic location in North America as a hub to import goods from Asia and Europe and then distribute those goods throughout the rest of Canada and parts of the United States by air, rail and truck.

By: Bruce Owen

Full Story: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/story/4224817p-4862341c.html

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