Under Island Rail Corp.’s ambitious proposal, it would offer local, national and international rail freight service and serve local passengers and tourists up and down the Island
A new company is proposing a partnership with governments and First Nations to establish a $1-billion modern freight rail service between ports in Port Alberni and Nanaimo, supported by barges carrying cargo to the Lower Mainland.
Cargo would come into Port Alberni and be loaded onto rail cars. From there, the freight would be carried by rail to Nanaimo, where 50 cars, with two stacked containers each, could go straight onto a barge to the mainland, Hayden said.Hayden said when the company spoke to potential freight customers on the Island, “the interest was phenomenal.”
Along with the mid-Island freight service, it’s looking at carrying freight up and down the Island as well as running passenger service for locals and tourists. Parallel hiking and biking pathways would be incorporated, the company said. The proposal comes as the federal government dedicates $600,000 from the National Trade Corridors Fund for the Nanaimo Port Authority to study expanding container capacity at its Port Drive site, and to look into the development of land near the port to support economic growth, new jobs and trade.
The federal government says that could improve import and export capacity of sectors such as forestry, agriculture and seafood.
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