Port of Prince Rupert successfully partners with Metlakatla on logistics park loan

The Prince Rupert Port Authority and Metlakatla Development Corporation (MDC) have secured a $60.7-million loan to develop the Indigenous-led South Kaien Import Logistics Park in Northern British Columbia.

Funding from the Canada Infrastructure Bank’s Indigenous Community Infrastructure Initiative will be used to develop 22.6 hectares (56 acres) of site infrastructure on flat and served land near the Fairview Terminal, CN Rail, and the recently announced CANXPORT facility.

More than half of the park is already leased for a logistics and warehousing complex that will significantly expand the port’s import transloading capabilities. The site is expected to be readied within two years. Its preparation will be followed by private sector investment to create approximately 100,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units of capacity to transload marine containers into domestic 53-foot marine containers.

The project is part of Metlakatla’s vision for regional growth benefitting future generations of its community, as well as creating and sustaining direct and indirect training opportunities and jobs for Metlakatla members and other Indigenous people in the Prince Rupert region. It will provide much needed additional capacity that will in turn bolster the Canadian supply chain’s resiliency and flexibility.