Business investing $12.5M at CentrePort

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It’s been a busy five years for one Manitoba-based transportation company. Now, the business is investing $12.5 million into a new facility at CentrePort Canada.

4Tracks Ltd. has watched its operations double since 2016 — there are now over 350 employees and more than 400 semi-trucks. Its vehicles carry goods across North America.

Jas Brar, the vice-president of 4Tracks, expects the company to expand by another 20 per cent in the next couple years.

The current building on Eagle Drive in CentrePort just isn’t big enough.

“We’re moving everything,” Brar said.

4Tracks owns 40 acres in Manitoba’s 20,000-acre inland port. It’s using a section to build a 27,000-square-foot building, which will include an office, warehouse and cross-dock facility.

Brar said the new space should open next September at the intersection of CentrePort Canada Way and Rosser Road, bordering Winnipeg in the RM of Rosser.

The site will make the intersection easily accessible for trucks, he said. When ready, 4Tracks will rent out its current building. The company hasn’t yet leased its existing space, Brar said.

“We are thrilled that 4Tracks… has found a new home to grow and expand their operations,” Diane Gray, CentrePort’s president and CEO, said in a news release.

“We are seeing an incredible demand for industrial land in the R.M. of Rosser, particularly as it relates to the logistics and trucking industry.”

gabrielle.piche@freepress.mb.ca