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One hour to CentrePort, with third-generation carriers already on the road.

04.4.2

The pattern

Penner is one of Canada's leading van carriers, third generation, run from here.

Big Freight has seven decades behind it. Steve’s Livestock built a specialty around the protein cluster it serves. None of them relocated to a bigger market to get there.

For a shipper that means the carrier capacity here was built by people who answer to customers on the same road, and a new entrant competes on service against a high bar rather than filling a vacuum.

04.4.3

Access

Everything inside one driving hour.

Steinbach Winnipeg 51 km, about 1 hour CentrePort Canada 59 km, about 1 hour Ste. Anne 16 km La Broquerie 13 km Landmark 19 km Vita 44 km Niverville 27 km Grunthal 18 km New Bothwell 16 km 25 km 50 km MANITOBA UNITED STATES Designated for the immigration pilot Community in the area Nearby Boundaries: OpenStreetMap, ODbL

PUBLISHED BY SOUTHEAST MANITOBA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. CENTREPORT CANADA IS THE LARGEST TRIMODAL INLAND PORT AND FOREIGN TRADE ZONE IN NORTH AMERICA.

04.4.4

Who runs here

Three carriers with decades behind them.

  • 01

    Penner International

    Third-generation North American carrier and one of Canada’s leading van carriers. Truckload dry van, international and domestic.

  • 02

    Big Freight Systems

    Seven decades of asset-based trucking, freight management, logistics, fleet maintenance and warehousing.

  • 03

    Steve's Livestock

    Specialised livestock transport built around the protein cluster it serves.

04.4.5

Why it matters

Food freight runs on temperature, welfare, timing and paperwork.

Carriers here have been hauling for this cluster for generations.

Your logistics risk on day one is lower than it would be in a region where you are the first perishable shipper on the road teaching a local carrier what a reefer audit is.

04.4.6

The gaps

Four capabilities the cluster buys outside the region.

Ask us who is buying each of these today and where it currently comes from.

  1. 01

    Cold storage

    Thin relative to the processing volume within an hour.

  2. 02

    Cross-dock capacity

    Limited.

  3. 03

    Reefer fleet growth

    Raised by shippers here.

  4. 04

    Bonded warehousing for export

    Given the export orientation, an obvious hole.

04.4.7

Next

Send us the lane.

Origin, destination, volume, temperature and timing. We will tell you what exists here and what does not.

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