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CentrePort named one of the top 100 infrastructure projects in North America
CentrePort, the transportation and trade project being built near Winnipeg’s airport, has been named one of the top 100 infrastructure projects in North America, the project’s CEO Diane Gray said in a statement today.
The project will be recognized this week at the 2nd Annual North American Strategic Infrastructure Leadership Forum in Washington, D.C.
The designation recognizes CentrePort's contribution to long-term competitiveness in North America.
"It’s an honor to be a featured project at the Forum," Gray said in a release."It helps us increase awareness about what we are building here in Manitoba and reach a new audience of potential investors."
Forum organizers say the goal of the Top 100 is to showcase projects with the potential to be "the basis for our way of life in 2025."
CentrePort Canada is one of two Manitoba projects to make the list. The other is the St. Joseph Wind Farm in southern Manitoba. St. Joseph is the largest wind farm scheduled to be built in Canada in 2010, according to Manitoba Hydro.
The Top 100 represents more than $400 billion in infrastructure projects across Canada, the United States and Mexico. The projects are grouped under the broad categories of highways and bridges; energy; rail and logistics; transit; and water.
CentrePort Canada is being recognized for its development as a future trading hub, and for projects underway such as the building of CentrePort Canada Way (CCW). CCW is a $212-million, divided expressway that will run through the inland port, connecting businesses to the Perimeter Highway. CCW is funded by the provincial and federal governments. Construction began this past spring.
The North American Strategic Infrastructure Leadership Forum, "Vision, Innovation & Speed," takes place Sept. 29 to Oct. 1 in Washington, D.C.
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