CargoM - Logistic and Transportation Metropolitan Cluster of Montréal

Launched in 2012 and as part of Greater Montreal’s economic development strategy, CargoM, the Montreal Metropolitan Logistics and Transportation Cluster, is one of 10 metropolitan clusters deployed since 2006. Our actions are structured around 4 working groups, within which its members work collaboratively to develop and implement tools, projects and initiatives that participate in economic development, improve the fluidity of the supply chain, attract new companies, enhance jobs and training, and promote the Greater Montreal hub internationally.

Solutions and services

CargoM bring together all Greater Montreal freight transport and logistics stakeholders whose activities promote Montreal as an industry hub around common goals and concerted actions to increase its cohesion, competitiveness, growth and reach.

CargoM's activities are structured around four working groups whose objective is to advance the reflection on its intervention priorities and to support the Board of Directors by recommending the most relevant strategies and ensuring their implementation.

The four workshops are :
• Sector development opportunities
• Communication and Outreach
• Innovation and Fluidity
• Workforce

Strengths and competitive advantages

In terms of economic development, a cluster is defined as a concentration of various-sized organizations with common interests, complementarity and/or interdependency that voluntarily develop cooperative relationships in one or more fields of action. A metropolitan cluster has the added specificity of a geographical concentration of the economic operations of the companies, firms and industries engaged in optimally boosting their competitiveness and extending their reach. A logistics and transportation (L&T) cluster is specialized and reflects the tendency of firms operating in the same, or closely related, industries and using the same technologies to be located in the same geographical area. These firms perform different functions but are linked by the concentration of their production, distribution, transportation and outreach networks. Cluster advantages are: attraction of related activities; stimulation of innovation and R&D; deepening of the local labour market; economic diversification; enhanced physical infrastructures and roader outreach of cluster activities on national and international levels. The Logistics and Transportation Metropolitan Cluster of Montreal, CargoM, fits into this definition and intends to deliver all the advantages a cluster makes possible for the benefit of Greater Montreal. Its main purpose is to win full recognition of the high-performance, competitive and innovative intermodal hub it calls home.

Clientele

Stakeholders and partners of the Greater Montreal logistics chain