CALGARY, June 28, 2017 /CNW/ - CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE: CNI)
today celebrated the groundbreaking of Whirlpool Canada's new
distribution centre now under construction at CN's Calgary
Logistics Park in Rocky View County, Alberta.
"We are very pleased to welcome Whirlpool Canada as a major
tenant in our state-of-the-art Calgary Logistics Park," said
Andrew Fuller, assistant
vice-president of domestic intermodal at CN. "By locating at our
Calgary Logistics Park, Whirlpool can provide customers with the
supply chain and logistics flexibility they need to service their
customers and increase their competitiveness."
Whirlpool representatives joined CN on Wednesday to break ground
on the 425,000-square-foot facility that will serve as a
distribution centre for finished Whirlpool appliances coming to
Alberta from across North America.
Stephen Stewart, director of
supply chain at Whirlpool Canada, said: "Our new regional
distribution centre at CN's Calgary Logistics Park provides us
direct connection to CN's rail network and transportation services,
allowing us to deliver our major appliances for our retail partners
more efficiently and reliably."
Opened in 2013, the Calgary Logistics Park connects customers to
CN's rail network and is strategically located between the ports of
Prince Rupert and Vancouver and major cities across Canada and mid-America. The Calgary region has long been recognized as one
of the most cost-effective places in Western North America to establish a
transportation and logistics hub and CN's logistics park provides
fast and easy access to rapidly growing markets in Western Canada, the
United States and Mexico.
CN is a true backbone of the economy whose team of approximately
22,200 railroaders transports more than C$250 billion worth of goods annually for a wide
range of business sectors, ranging from resource products to
manufactured products to consumer goods, across a rail network of
approximately 20,000 route-miles spanning Canada and mid-America. CN – Canadian National
Railway Company, along with its operating railway subsidiaries –
serves the cities and ports of Vancouver, Prince
Rupert, B.C., Montreal,
Halifax, New Orleans, and Mobile, Ala., and the metropolitan areas of
Toronto, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Calgary, Chicago, Memphis, Detroit, Duluth,
Minn./Superior, Wis., and
Jackson, Miss., with connections
to all points in North America.
For more information about CN, visit the company's website at
www.cn.ca.
SOURCE CN