Yea CentrePort - 1/2 of Mb is down on a Free Trip To mexico

http://stage.www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/marketing-fact-finding-jaunt-for-centreport-81120342.html?viewAllComments=y
Marketing, fact-finding jaunt for CentrePort
A 30-personThe large group will include CentrePort staff, board members, officials from three levels of government and representatives from business and labour.
"The fact is we are sitting on a significant acreage of industrial land adjacent to a large urban centre, which is unique to North America," Gray said.
"The more and better informed we are about how the port might function, the better equipped we will be to support those opportunities."

HOW MIGHT IT FUNCTION??

"The fact is we are sitting on a significant acreage of industrial land adjacent to a large urban centre, which is unique to North America," "

BULLSHIT!!!

Every single city in north America not on the coast and several of those on a coast is adjacent to large tracts of land which at the drop of a hat can turn into industrial zoned

I'm down with Centreport. The best thing to happen to Winnipeg since Bobby Hull.

Centreport is nothing but an unproven concept. Until such time as the business start showing up in Droves it will remain nothing.

I certainly hope that Centreport does work out tho.

Deank wrote:Centreport is nothing but an unproven concept. Until such time as the business start showing up in Droves it will remain nothing.

I certainly hope that Centreport does work out tho.

It will work. As long as the NIMBY's are exterminated.

Deank wrote:"The fact is we are sitting on a significant acreage of industrial land adjacent to a large urban centre, which is unique to North America," "

BULLSHIT!!!

Every single city in north America not on the coast and several of those on a coast is adjacent to large tracts of land which at the drop of a hat can turn into industrial zoned

Maybe not so much. Perhaps the uniqueness of a major airport coupled with the proximity of major rail hubs and sea port, the geographic location of Winnipeg within NA that can leverage less costly shipping costs from Asia and distribution anywhere in NA.

I'd say that Winnipeg has a rather unique advantage that could easily put Winnipeg in an envious position.

Perhaps you could name another city that has the same or similar advantages?

If we are shipping trainloads of Marijuana grown in the North!
There was something tried years ago that there was a big hullaboo, that made no sense as does this bullshit storey.
Who is going to send goods across to Winnipeg that has to be delivered to Chicago??

rosencrentz wrote:
Who is going to send goods across to Winnipeg that has to be delivered to Chicago??

When tons of companies relocate to Winnipeg, the goods will be produced here, and sent to Chicago.

grumpy old man wrote:

Deank wrote:"The fact is we are sitting on a significant acreage of industrial land adjacent to a large urban centre, which is unique to North America," "

BULLSHIT!!!

Every single city in north America not on the coast and several of those on a coast is adjacent to large tracts of land which at the drop of a hat can turn into industrial zoned

Maybe not so much. Perhaps the uniqueness of a major airport coupled with the proximity of major rail hubs and sea port, the geographic location of Winnipeg within NA that can leverage less costly shipping costs from Asia and distribution anywhere in NA.

I'd say that Winnipeg has a rather unique advantage that could easily put Winnipeg in an envious position.

Perhaps you could name another city that has the same or similar advantages?

We already have those advantages, Centreport will change nothing of that.

"the goods will be produced here,"

at our high North American rate of pay? Unlikely.

Deank wrote:"the goods will be produced here,"

at our high North American rate of pay? Unlikely.

Very likely.

Goods produced in Canada are top of the line. Goods produced in Mexico, not so. Take China as an example. Many problems have arose in the last 5 years regarding defective merchandise coming out of the country. Canadians are hard working people who have always produced top quality products. If it were not the case, Mexico and others would have already become 1st world countries.

If this idea is dpendant on manufacturered goods, then I think someone is smoking our dope! years ago we had 10,000 sewing jobs right here in Winnipeg! That was the 1960s. and I was there! All of those jobs are gone to Asia, and all of those sewers converted their low paying jobs into good paying jobs in the nursing field.
My Father had 80 people working for him producing braided rugs. We were allways 15% too high to get Eaton's, Simpson-Sears, ordes. We got Woodward's one year. Asia allways were cheaper. Cheaper allways won, except when there was a strike in Vancouver, then we got orders from Eaton's to fill in.

Deank wrote:We already have those advantages, Centreport will change nothing of that.

Why not? Is it not a program designed to attract business by coupling our location and transportation? Will there not be a tax-free zone component? Will there not be a focus on the types of businesses that could best leverage those advantages?

Why not say why it won't work instead of BULLSHIT!!!

I don't think Centreport will attract manufacturers. It will attract value add companies. Maybe final assembly.

grumpy old man wrote:I don't think Centreport will attract manufacturers. It will attract value add companies. Maybe final assembly.

maybe, I hope so... but it definately wont be manufacturers.

Just to refresh my memory.....this centre port thingy is supposed to be something like this in the concept:

A company in say, Hong Kong, will be shipping their goods to Winnipeg and we, in Winnipeg, will be redirecting it to their customer in say, Vancouver?

Is that that deal?

no.

they will be shipping its parts to winnipeg from places all over the globe. We will final assmemble in winnipeg and ship out.

http://www.centreportcanada.ca/abouthtml.html

CentrePort Canada is North America’s new 20,000-acre inland port that has been designated Canada’s first Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ). Located in Manitoba next to Winnipeg’s James Armstrong Richardson International Airport, CentrePort Canada offers greenfield investment opportunities for a wide variety of business operations including distribution, warehousing and manufacturing.
CentrePort Canada is strategically located in the central time zone in the heart of North America. It boasts a modern, well-established network of highways, railways, air and sea connections to important regional and international markets, including eastern and western Canada, the United States, Mexico and Latin America, as well as Europe and Asia.
As an FTZ, CentrePort Canada has significant tax and cost savings to offer foreign investors and businesses looking for new ways to bring their products to the North American marketplace. FTZ benefits include deferral of customs duties and a GST exemption on products imported to Canada for warehousing or processing before re-export out of country.

Seems to me, all this appears to be smoke and mirrors....distribution, warehousing and manufacturing...
FTZ's are available throughout the country, and are a federal-based program anyway.

The geography angle is so thin that you can see your mother-in-law through it imo.

btw for anyone interested in Foreign Trade Zones...

http://investincanada.gc.ca/download/1027.pdf

yeah like I said. I certainly hope that something great will come of this, but I am not holding my breath. Its a great place for Canadian manufacturers to set up shop though. AND if the port of churchill was ever used properly Winnipeg would be a great secondary place for most of Europe as well.

I think we have to be very selective in which sectors of the manufacturing industry in which we can compete. High wages and benefits in Canada prevent us from being competitive with other countries in the international markets.

yup.

There are companies that today ship unfinished goods into North America today. Those goods are assembled in North America and distributed within North America. Often there is value added. It is thought that business will grow.

It is that type of business that could find Centreport attractive if a) they can ship the goods into North America more quickly through Winnipeg (via Churchill maybe or air from Europe and Air over the north) and even via ship then rail from the west coast; and 2) if the tax incentives lower their costs. and iii) if it is less expensive and quicker to redistribute through NA from Winnipeg.

This is the business Centreport would target.

Until such time as the port of Churchill is open all year we'll have to rely on foreign goods that are being shipped soley by air. That a very limited market imo.