Propose development perspectives and opportunities.
Provide Greater Montreal’s freight transport and logistics sector with tools and measures to improve their competitiveness and increase their contribution to the region’s economic development.
ONGOING KEY PROJECTS
In charge of this working group Amy Lombard, Project Manager : alombard@cargo-montreal.ca
Collaborative Innovation Hub for Mobility (CIM) :
Study: Les enjeux liés aux règlements municipaux, à l’urbanisme et au développement durable du secteur de la logistique (Issues related to municipal bylaws, urban planning and sustainable development in the logistics sector) by INFRA-S
Foreign Trade Zone Centre (FTZ):
Improve the efficiency of transportation and logistics in Greater Montreal.
Identify the keys to success to attract new distribution centres and make Greater Montreal a recognized and sought-after hub for its competitiveness.
Achievements
The City of Sustainable Mobility was renamed, effective January 2023, the Collaborative Innovation Hub for Mobility. The CIM is now part of the Innovation Centres and Zones program under the MEIE
Development of a progress report: Horizon logistique – Mettre à profit notre force de transport (logistics overview – leveraging our transportation strength), in collaboration with Working Group 2, to raise awareness of the supply chain among elected officials. This document addresses the sector’s major issues, namely development opportunities, fluidity, innovation, workforce and sustainable mobility. It provides recommendations and priority actions. Horizon logistique was presented to Ms. Geneviève Guilbault, Deputy Premier and Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, and to the transportation critics of the other political parties.
Acceptation and participation as Canada’s representative in the Flanders Visitors Program – Smart and Sustainable Supply Chain Solutions (October 9-14, 2022) in Belgium.
Meetings and presentations with the Quebec delegations in Brussels and Chicago and with representatives of the embassies here in Montreal from the United States, Germany, Belgium, Czech Republic, France and Panama.
Participation by CargoM in several events as a panelist, presenter or moderator in Montreal and internationally, including a mission to Savannah as part of The Southeast U.S.-Canadian Provinces (SEUS-CP) Alliance conference; Propulsion Québec’s Impulsion 2023 Summit and the CCMM 2022 Transportation Forum. For more information, please see page 20 of this report.