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Our Purpose

Alberta Logistics Centre of Excellence is Alberta’s transportation and logistics centre of excellence, created to catalyse sector strengths, address systemic gaps, and drive measurable economic impact across the province.

Our Vision

A resilient, high-performance logistics ecosystem that provides both the strategic foundation for stability and the central engine for sustainable economic velocity across Alberta.

Our Mission

To strengthen and accelerate Alberta’s transportation and logistics sector. We build the strategic alignment, talent pipelines, and innovation frameworks required to engineer a high-velocity, globally competitive ecosystem.

Our Strategic Pillars

Skills, Talent & Development

We deliver targeted programs that build technical, digital, and strategic capability across the sector. From executive leadership series to mid-level digital skills bootcamps, our focus is practical skill building tied to measurable company outcomes.

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Innovation & Technology Diffusion

We accelerate competitive advantage, not just technology adoption. Through applied research pilots, AI translation programs, and vendor-neutral sandboxes, we help firms integrate innovation into daily operations.

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Trade & Tariff Strategy

We equip leaders to navigate uncertainty. Scenario planning, compliance intelligence, and economic indicators ensure Alberta firms are prepared for cross-border volatility and market diversification.

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Thought Leadership

Advancing sector-wide dialogue, foresight, and executive-level insight to inform decision-making and shape the future of transportation and logistics.

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Our Core Values

Applied Impact

Every initiative is measured by what it changes in the real world. We don’t produce reports that sit on shelves. We produce outcomes that show up in your operations.

Vendor Neutrality

Trust requires objectivity. Our technology assessments, pilots, and recommendations are independent. You get clarity, not a sales pitch.

Ecosystem Collaboration

No single organization can solve systemic sector challenges alone. We align industry, academia, and government around shared objectives and coordinated action.

Accountability

We operate under a funded mandate with contracted deliverables. Our KPIs are public, our timelines are fixed, and our partners hold us to both.

Industry-Led Direction

Operators and executives set the priorities. Academic rigour supports them. Government investment enables them. The sector leads; we orchestrate.

Future-Ready Thinking

Reacting to disruption is expensive. We build the foresight capacity, scenario frameworks, and strategic intelligence your organization needs to anticipate what’s next.

Built for Alberta. Designed for Western Canada.

Transportation and logistics underpin Alberta’s economy. Representing approximately 6% of provincial employment, the sector enables trade, supports energy and manufacturing, and connects Alberta businesses to global markets.

However, structural challenges are intensifying. Trade volatility, labour gaps, cost inflation, regulatory pressure, and digital disruption threaten competitiveness — particularly for small and mid-sized firms.

Without coordinated strategy and applied innovation support, Alberta risks falling behind peer jurisdictions investing aggressively in logistics modernisation.

The Challenges We Face

Strategic Capacity

Beneath these pressures lies a deeper challenge: building the strategic capacity required to anticipate change, align decisions, and compete with confidence in an increasingly volatile environment.

Trade Volatility and Tariff Pressure

Cross-border uncertainty and evolving trade agreements are increasing compliance costs and compressing margins for carriers and exporters.

Labour and Skills Gaps

An aging workforce and limited digital training capacity constrain growth and delay technology adoption.

Technology Adoption Lag

Many small and mid-sized enterprises lack the internal capacity to evaluate and deploy advanced analytics, AI, and automation tools effectively—even when proven solutions exist.

Our Solution: A Centre of Excellence

The Centre provides structured engagement combining executive foresight, applied pilots, workforce training, and ecosystem collaboration under one coordinated platform.

By aligning industry associations, academic partners, government stakeholders, and technology providers, we create a practical pathway from insight to implementation.

Why This Matters

Your Sector. Your Advantage. Your Next Move.

Whether you’re evaluating technology, strengthening your team, or navigating trade complexity, ALCoE gives you the structure to act with confidence.

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ALCoE is powered by Mount Royal University and supported by provincial and federal partners to strengthen Alberta’s transportation and logistics ecosystem through applied strategy, innovation, and workforce development.