CentrePort named one of continent’s top infrastructure projects.
Centreport Canada has been named one of the top 100 infrastructure projects in North America.
The transportation hub will be recognized this week at the 2nd Annual North American Strategic Infrastructure Leadership Forum in Washington, D.C.
The designation was awarded by Leadership Forum host CG/LA Infrastructure and recognizes CentrePort Canada’s strategic contribution to long-term competitiveness in North America.
“It’s an honor to be a featured project at the Forum,” said Diane Gray, president and CEO of CentrePort Canada. “It helps us increase awareness about what we are building here in Manitoba and reach a new audience of potential investors. Interest in CentrePort is strong as more and more businesses are looking at the opportunities that exist on our footprint.”
According to Forum organizers, the goal of the Top 100 is to showcase projects with the potential to be “the basis for our way of life in 2025.” CentrePort Canada is one of only two Manitoba projects to make the list. The other is the St. Joseph Wind Farm.
The Top 100 represents more than $400 billion in infrastructure projects across Canada, the United States and Mexico. The projects are grouped under the broad categories of highways and bridges; energy; rail and logistics; transit; and water.
CentrePort Canada is being recognized for its development as a logistics and trading hub, and for projects underway such as the building of CentrePort Canada Way (CCW). CCW is a $212-million, divided expressway that will run through the inland port, connecting businesses to the Perimeter Highway. CCW is funded by the provincial and federal governments and construction began this past spring.
The North American Strategic Infrastructure Leadership Forum, “Vision, Innovation & Speed,” will take place Sept. 29 to Oct. 1 in Washington, D.C.
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