Canadian Pacific and Canadian Tire Corporation announced the deployment of North America’s first 60-foot intermodal container for use by the retailer. Page Content
The new containers will increase shipping productivity and efficiency, while helping to reduce freight carbon intensity.
The 60-foot container, which was developed by Canadian Tire team in close collaboration with CP, will serve as an intermodal solution to increase productivity and efficiency. The increased size – an additional seven feet from the current 53-foot containers – allows Canadian Tire and CP to transport more products to increase the volume of products shipped in each container, while reducing transportation costs and greenhouse gas emissions per unit of freight.
“Canadian Tire has one of the largest transportation networks in the country, moving more than 100,000 different types of products to 500 stores from coast-to-coast. Our supply chain infrastructure is one of the most modern in Canada, capable of supporting growth and efficiently managing the increasing number of products we transport,” said Neil McKenna, Vice-President, Transportation, Canadian Tire. This new configuration will enable us to increase the volume shipped in each container by 13 per cent which ultimately allows us to carry more goods per trip, resulting in an improvement in service to our stores and our customers.”
CP has collaborated with Canadian Tire on innovative projects before, including the introduction of the first 53-foot intermodal container in 1994.
“At CP, we are constantly looking for ways to do our business beter, safer and more efficiently in order to serve our customers and the nation’s economy,” said Jonathan Wahba, Vice-President of Sales and Marketing, Intermodal and Grain.
CP has been testing the 60-foot configuration for several months through a variety of ways, including using a prototype on existing 53-foot containers to mimic the new, longer container in transit.