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CentrePort already getting inquiries from abroad
CentrePort board chairman Kerry Hawkins said Friday they've already had calls from interested manufacturers from Korea, Europe, and two from China.
"There is certainly interest," Hawkins said in an interview.
Earlier this week, Premier Gary Doer and Stockwell Day, the federal minister of international trade and the Asia-Pacific Gateway, announced $3.5 million worth of funding for CentrePort.
CentrePort is being set up to run an inland port around the airport, with export-oriented manufacturing, warehousing and multi-modal distribution operations being located there.
Having CentrePort designated a foreign trade zone allows manufacturers who set up shop there to import parts duty-free and put them in their finished products before exporting them. Only then would the manufacturer pay taxes and duties on the finished goods.
Kansas City, Dallas-Fort Worth and Guanajuato, Mexico have the same designations.
Hawkins said he couldn't divulge the identities of the companies that called.
kevin.rollason@freepress.mb.ca
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition October 10, 2009 B8
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3 Comments
Posted by: czdell
October 10, 2009 at 8:06 PM
It is clear, libertarian has never been beyond (Ontario, Ohio, Michigan.) Winnipeg is remarkably diversified and a Centre Port is the perfect concept to take its place in the city, as it ought to have, a long time ago.
Libertarian, maybe the floors you once swept are much cleaner now, since, you played in the rust. Read some books, search the web, then in hope you learn something beyond vomiting up rusted garble, where everyone else knows you are incompetent to speak about future developments within Winnipeg.
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October 10, 2009 at 1:29 PM
Uh yeah, libertarian, I guess governments and industry should have spoken to you first and they could have saved themselves the time and effort. You may not be aware but winnipeg is already a manufacturing hub in Canada, and the whole point of centre port is to build any further infrastructure needed. Now go back to being your whacky libertarian self.
Posted by: libertarian
October 10, 2009 at 6:29 AM
Manufacturing should be going to the rust belt areas (Ontario, Ohio, Michigan etc.) Winnipeg neither has the trained workforce, the consuming population nor the supplier support infrastruction to compete.