OmniTRAX
OmniTRAX, Inc is one of North America’s largest private railroad and transportation management companies with interests in railroads, terminals, ports and industrial real estate. OmniTRAX operates a network of 17 regional and short line railroads that cover 11 states in the US and 3 provinces in Canada. The company’s railroads interchange with BNSF, CN, CSXT, NS & UP and transport commodities within the Agricultural, Aggregate & Industrial Mineral, Energy, Food, Crude Oil, Chemical, Lumber, Metal, Petroleum and Plastic industries.
Through its affiliate, Quality Terminal Services, LLC, OmniTRAX also operates and manages terminal and intermodal facilities where services such as railcar switching, container handling, ramp/deramp and carrier management are provided. OmniTRAX Logistics Services, LLC offers custom design logistics solutions.
The President of OmniTRAX Canada, since August 2013, is the former Canadian politician Merv Tweed.[1] It operates the Hudson Bay Railway, and the Port of Churchill Manitoba, which is the largest fuel terminal in the Arctic and North America’s only deep water Arctic seaport, and offers a gateway for commercial trade between North America and Mexico, South America, Europe and the Middle East.
The Illinois International Port District, which manages the Port of Chicago, leased its operations to OmniTRAX for a term of 63 years in July 2013.[2][3]
OmniTRAX was implicated in the scandal of the BC Legislature Raids, which led to the conviction of Dave Basi and Bob Virk, ministerial aides to Gary Collins and Janet Reid, respectively.[4] "Bribes [were paid] - cash, meals and NFL tickets - in exchange for leaking confidential material about the sale".[4] The information was insufficient to obtain for OmniTRAX the BC Rail property it desired; instead this was sold for CAD$1 billion to CN Rail.[4]
OmniTRAX, Inc is a subsidiary of Denver-based family-owned The Broe Group and was founded in 1986.[2][3]
OmniTRAX-managed railroads include:
- Alabama & Tennessee River Railway, L.L.C.
- Alliance Terminal Railroad, L.L.C.
- Carlton Trail Railway Company
- Chicago Rail Link, L.L.C.
- Fulton County Railway, L.L.C.
- Georgia & Florida Railway, Inc.
- Georgia Woodlands Railroad, L.L.C.
- Great Western Railway of Colorado, L.L.C.
- Hudson Bay Railway Company
- Illinois Railway, Inc.
- Kettle Falls International Railway, L.L.C.
- Manufacturers' Junction Railway, L.L.C.
- Nebraska Kansas Colorado Railway, Inc.
- Newburgh & South Shore Railroad, L.L.C.
- Northern Ohio & Western Railway, L.L.C.
- Panhandle Northern Railroad, L.L.C.
- Stockton Terminal and Eastern Railroad
OmniTRAX-managed ports include:
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References
- ↑ cbc.ca: "Manitoba MP quits, takes top job at rail company. Tory MP second in matter of weeks to resign in Manitoba" 12 Aug 2013
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 illinoisobserver.net: "Canadian Bribery Scandal Taints Emanuel Illinois Port Deal" 26 Jul 2013
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 illinoisobserver.net: "Illinois Port District Gives 63-Year Lease to Denver-based Broe Group" 22 Jul 2013
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 G+M: "BC Rail trial ends after deal reached" (Mason) 18 Oct 2010