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If you're shipping wind tower and turbine components, CN has the network reach and transportation experience to help you generate market growth.
We offer unique advantages:
- North American rail network that facilitates seamless shipping between manufacturers and wind farms
- Know how, expertise and a proven track record for protecting your products
- Strong relationships with logistics specialists, enabling us to deliver a complete transportation solution
- Rail as the environmentally friendly transportation choice
Benefit from our know how and industry experience
We have a proven track record for helping customers succeed in the North American wind energy industry. We are committed to safety and damage-free handling because we know how valuable your product is to you. Not only do you benefit from a higher payload than truck, but your turbine components are subjected to less friction when shipped on a railcar. Since 2005, CN has shipped over 2,100 carloads of wind tower components, including tower sections, blades, nacelles and hubs.
Get a value-added, complete transportation solution from our experts
CN can help you harness the energy of wind for electricity generation, wherever you fit in the supply chain. If you are a manufacturer of wind turbines, developer of a wind farm, utility/energy company, or logistics supplier, we can design a shipping solution for you.
To make it seamless, we work with logistics specialists who handle your valuable wind turbine components from port facilities to rail or from rail to the wind farm. Through CN WorldWide North America, we have access to logistics professionals with expertise in rail transportation, trucking, transloading, warehousing and physical distribution. When necessary, we also leverage our relationships with experienced third-party logistics companies.
A value-added logistics solution for your turbine components can include:
- Height and width clearance analysis
- Reliable transit times
- Heavy duty railcars for your dimensional load and/or containers for smaller components
- Recommendations of special equipment for efficient loading
- Special train service (some turbine components can be shipped on regularly scheduled trains)
- Safe loading requirements
- Door-to-door delivery
- Transload facilities for truck to rail transfer
Rail is the environmentally friendly transportation choice
Wind turbines are helping the world shift to a greener energy supply. It makes sense to ship them using a greener transportation mode. Did you know that:
- Rail emits six times less greenhouse gases than heavy trucks.
- CN can move one tonne of freight 197 kilometres on just one litre of fuel.
Contact CN today
If you need a transportation solution for your wind turbine and tower components, contact our wind market expert today.
