Churchill, Manitoba

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Orthographic projection centred over Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.

Churchill, Manitoba is the small city, on the coast of Hudson Bay, in the province of Manitoba, Canada.^[1] It lies at the mouth of Churchill River, and is the rail-head of a rail-link to North American rail grid.

It is Canada's only seaport on the Arctic Ocean.^[1] It is North America's only Arctic seaport that is connected to the North American railroad grid. It is ice-bound for over half the year. But it is ice-free in time for the annual wheat harvest. Shipping wheat is cheaper by sea, than by rail. It is cheaper to transport grain to Churchill by rail, and then tranship it to bulk carriers to take to Europe than it is to transport it by rail to an East Coast port, and transfer it to a bulk carrier to the trip to Europe there..

With global warming there is speculation that it may become economic to ship other goods from Murmansk around the Southern tip of Greenland, to Churchill, and then by rail to markets in North America.^[1] This route is sometimes referred to as the "Arctic Bridge".

In 1998 the aging and under-used port facilities, and tracks from Churchill to Winnipeg were bought by an American firm named Omnitrax, for just $10.^[1]

References

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Canada's climate change boomtown, BBC, 2008-01-02. Retrieved on 2008-08-10.