By Matt Kelly

New grain terminal coming to Maymont

Jul 18, 2016 | 2:00 PM

Ground has broken on a new grain terminal in the northwest.

GrainsConnect Canada is building its first of four modern high-throughout grain terminals in Maymont, approximately 47 km southeast of the Battlefords.

President of GrainsConnect Canada Warren Stow said the site will have 35,000 tonnes of storage and have a 130 grain hopper car train loop, which will allow the site to load a full train in fewer than 10 hours. The site is being built on CN’s Prairie North Rail Line between Winnipeg and Edmonton.

GrainsConnect Canada is an equal joint venture between GrainCorp of Australia and Zen-Noh of Japan. Stow said the new Maymont terminal allows them access to the resources in the area.

“We’ll have the ability the ability to access wheat, barley, canola and pulses from that area to supply our customers and in particular, our shareholders,” Stow said.

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Stow said the new terminal gives farmers in the area another option when they market their grain.

“Both GrainCorp and Zen-Noh, in particular, switch on significant demand for the crops that are grown in that area,” Stow said.

Stow added up to 200 jobs will be created during construction and there will be approximately 12 full time staff positions once the terminal is open.

Construction is expected to take 18 months and the terminal is planned to be operational by the end 2017.

Matt Kelly is battlefordsNOW’s town municipal affairs and community reporter. He can be reached at mkelly@jpbg.ca.