MAERSK's El Segundo, California's Performance Team has announced plans for a new Toronto distribution centre to serve the growth of Canada's import and export cargoes via ocean, rail, air and road, reports London's Loadstar.
Maersk's end-to-end supply chain ocean services integrated in a rail service will call the Port of Prince Rupert, Vancouver, Seattle, Montreal, Halifax and Mobile, Alabama that also offers air freight and customs clearance.
'Toronto is the fastest growing logistics intersection for goods across Canada as well as into the United States through the US border,' said Performance Team vice president Jason Walker.
'Our Toronto site will create a strong hub to help accelerate Canadian supply chains and strengthen their ability to face future supply chain disruption challenges,' he said.
Some 8.6 million people live within 50 miles of the Maersk unit's Toronto facility, representing the highest population density in Canada. Nearly 15 million people are within 250 miles, creating Canada's largest customer and consumer demand market.
As the largest logistics centre in Canada, Toronto has superb access to seven major highways that provide access to locations across Canada and US border crossings. The market is directly served and focused as a hub by both the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific railways with intermodal railyards.
In addition, the Toronto Pearson International Airport processes over 45 per cent of Canada's air cargo, serving 175 international destinations and most Canadian ecommerce consumers due to the strategic geographic location.
The airport also serves as the centre for the region's rail and highway network, ensuring scaled supply chains to ship to the region's retailers who are expanding in this market.
Said Maersk Canada president Omar Shamsie: 'The pandemic has changed supply chain demand models. Ecommerce sales continue to soar and supply chains need to tap into this growing market. Our customers are looking for faster order fulfillment in Toronto and the surrounding markets through integrated logistics.'
The new building will be a new state-of-the-art facility located on Airport Road in the Toronto metro-area - strategically-located as the ideal balance of distance to port, airport, and close proximity to the Canadian Rail Intermodal complex.
The 568,000-square foot, 9-dock door facility will open in November 2022 and be operated by Performance Team and will complement the company's existing Pacific Transload Express centre in Vancouver that opened last September.
The ability to transload international containers into domestic 53-foot trailers for inland rail destination to Toronto and the US Midwest enables customers to achieve overall cost savings (per cubic metre) for domestic distribution, while reducing storage costs related to port demurrage and detention of international containers, the company said.
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Maersk's end-to-end supply chain ocean services integrated in a rail service will call the Port of Prince Rupert, Vancouver, Seattle, Montreal, Halifax and Mobile, Alabama that also offers air freight and customs clearance.
'Toronto is the fastest growing logistics intersection for goods across Canada as well as into the United States through the US border,' said Performance Team vice president Jason Walker.
'Our Toronto site will create a strong hub to help accelerate Canadian supply chains and strengthen their ability to face future supply chain disruption challenges,' he said.
Some 8.6 million people live within 50 miles of the Maersk unit's Toronto facility, representing the highest population density in Canada. Nearly 15 million people are within 250 miles, creating Canada's largest customer and consumer demand market.
As the largest logistics centre in Canada, Toronto has superb access to seven major highways that provide access to locations across Canada and US border crossings. The market is directly served and focused as a hub by both the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific railways with intermodal railyards.
In addition, the Toronto Pearson International Airport processes over 45 per cent of Canada's air cargo, serving 175 international destinations and most Canadian ecommerce consumers due to the strategic geographic location.
The airport also serves as the centre for the region's rail and highway network, ensuring scaled supply chains to ship to the region's retailers who are expanding in this market.
Said Maersk Canada president Omar Shamsie: 'The pandemic has changed supply chain demand models. Ecommerce sales continue to soar and supply chains need to tap into this growing market. Our customers are looking for faster order fulfillment in Toronto and the surrounding markets through integrated logistics.'
The new building will be a new state-of-the-art facility located on Airport Road in the Toronto metro-area - strategically-located as the ideal balance of distance to port, airport, and close proximity to the Canadian Rail Intermodal complex.
The 568,000-square foot, 9-dock door facility will open in November 2022 and be operated by Performance Team and will complement the company's existing Pacific Transload Express centre in Vancouver that opened last September.
The ability to transload international containers into domestic 53-foot trailers for inland rail destination to Toronto and the US Midwest enables customers to achieve overall cost savings (per cubic metre) for domestic distribution, while reducing storage costs related to port demurrage and detention of international containers, the company said.
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