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HOPA

Hamilton Oshawa Port Authority

Thorold Multimodal Hub NEW


HOPA created 2019 when Port of Hamilton and Port of Oshawa consolidated.
Expansion 2020 into Niagara region includes lease of pier space on Welland Canal
(managed by St.Lawrence Seaway Authority). Plus, purchase of 140 acres at Highways 58 and 406
site of former Resolute Forest Products (Thorold South) mill idled March 2017.
The latter for a major distribution facility.

Welland Canal

 


Port of Hamilton is 630 acres with 130 tenant companies with 2100 employees.

Multiple projects under way will include new trackage on site to provide rail access to all areas by all railways.

Much of the major expansions are on former STELCO lands long unused due to downsizing
by U.S. Steel closing steel making blast furnace. MANA Steel #1 Bar Mill SBQ for automobiles.

Steel Transload Facility
Pier 15 NEWEST

A major expansion (2 ha/5 acres) announced November 9, 2022 expending $9.8 Million
($5M Federal funding from National Trade Corridors fund)
to enhance handling steel at this key supply chain gateway.

 

Pier 15

Fluke Transportation warehouse $6M expansion Pier 15, 450 Sherman Ave. Hamilton.

Pier 12

HOPA 40,000 sq.ft fabric warehouse $5M. Federal Marine Terminals, FMT Pier 12 Hamilton.
Stevedoring and transloading of sugar, road salt and steel.

Sylite Agri-Services
100 Spine Rd. N.
Pier 12

Pier 10

. . .

Additional work includes major expansions of Parrish & Heimbecker's milling facility (grain)
231 Burlington Street East (Pier 10) and Sucro Sourcing for a sugar refinery expansion originally
opened June 2019.


MANA Steel
#1 Bar Mill
Pier 18 East Harbour

Max Aicher North America site 69 acres acquired 2010 from U.S.Steel (formerly, STELCO)
Inactive for 10 years due to shutdown of obsolete facilities including blast furnace.

Two views of property acquired by MANA.

 


Thorold Multimodal Hub NEW

Bioveld Canada

3363 Davis Rd,
Thorold

Aerial view 200 acre site including recently acquired Resolute Forest Products paper mill (formerly Ontario Paper)
on a 155 acre site at 2 Allanburg Rd. in Thorold South. With 500,000 sq ft. of warehouse space.

ENLARGE

Note: Rail switching on this site is provided by GIO Rail connecting to CN.

Biolveld 1305 (ex Resolute Forest Products 1305, ex Resolute FP 1305, ex DESX 1305, Iroquois Falls, ON
nee CN 1305) SW1200RS GMD A1542 7/1958.


 

 

 

 



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