About Us

Les Élévateurs des Trois-Rivières Ltée was built in 1936 to receive, store and ship grain products, and was significantly expanded in the 1960s after the Seaway opened. In 1991, the elevator diversified, becoming a receiving and storage facility of alumina and coke for the nearby aluminum smelter. 

Today, the elevator has storage capacity of 110 000 tonnes of grain, 78 000 tonnes of alumina and 20 000 tonnes of coke.

The elevator handles a throughput of about 1 200 000 tonnes per year, evenly divided between grain and other commodities.

Les Élévateurs des Trois-Rivières Ltée is one of the few facilities able to unload vessels of up to Panamax size. The unloading rate for grain is 2 000 tonnes per hour using two marine towers; alumina is unloaded at an average of 560 tonnes per hour. Elevator operations may continue 24 hours a day.

The facility can also load vessels of up to Panamax size. There is 35 feet of water at the berth, and Trois-Rivières is ideally located for ocean vessels, leaving the Seaway system, loaded with grain, to top off at deeper drafts.

The elevator can receive grain by ocean ship, laker, rail, or truck. It serves as a grain distribution facility to supply feed grains to the local Quebec market. It also receives local grain by truck for export.