Millbrook First Nation has entered into a partnership with a transportation logistics company called Canadian Rail Equipment Works and Services to develop an inland shipping terminal near Truro in central Nova Scotia.

The facility is meant to improve the flow of cargo through the Port of Halifax and reduce congestion on downtown streets caused by heavy trucks.

"If we can move more cargo by rail out to somewhere as far as Truro, being that a lot of the trucks are going up through Cape Breton or ac…