Port of Churchill
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The Port of Churchill in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada is a port on the Arctic Ocean. It was once owned by the Government of Canada but was sold to the American company OmniTRAX to run privately.
The port has four deep-sea berths for the loading and unloading of grain, bulk commodities, general cargo, and tanker vessels. The port is connected to the Hudson Bay Railway, an affiliated company of OmniTRAX. Further connections are made with the Canadian National Railway system.
On October 18, 2007 the port received its first inbound shipment in seven years and the first ever from Russia, a shipment of fertilizer purchased by Farmers of North America. Typically, the port is used for outgoing shipments of grain, usually from the Canadian Wheat Board.[1] The shipment from Russia is supposed to be the beginning of an Arctic Bridge that would link Churchill with the Russian port of Murmansk.
