Located 100 miles east of the Twin Cities, the terminal offers Wisconsin and Minnesota customers new supply chain options to ship and receive containerized goods, CN officials said in a prepared statement.
The terminal offers twice-weekly container service with fifth-morning availability from the West Coast. Located on an 8.5-acre site at CN's Chippewa Falls Yard, the terminal features a 2,500-foot-long intermodal loading and unloading track, and a grain transfer facility.
"This terminal gives companies in the upper Midwest direct and efficient single-rail-line access to new North American and global markets via our continental network, as well as the ports we serve on the Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf coasts," said Jean-Jacques Ruest, CN’s executive vice president and chief marketing officer. “In the years ahead, we see good opportunities to develop new traffic lanes to this facility from a number of ports across our North American network.”
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