CP Railway to serve new Toyota site in Ontario
Canadian Pacific Railway has been awarded a long-term contract by Toyota Motor Sales to be the primary rail carrier for finished vehicles manufactured at Toyota’s automotive plant at Woodstock, Ontario, due to open 2008.
The railway has started an environmental assessment for a new rail facility to service the Woodstock plant, which when complete will have the capacity to build 150,000 of Toyota’s RAV4 sport utility vehicle each year.
“This is a real-time outcome of our focus on Execution Excellence and one that builds on our already strong partnership with Toyota,” said Fred Green, CPR’s president and chief executive officer. “We have been supplying rail service to Toyota’s Cambridge plant for more than 17 years and this agreement demonstrates that Toyota is confident in CPR’s ability to provide the same quality rail service to their new Woodstock plant.”