About
Advisors to infrastructure leaders.
CPCS is a global, independent, employee-owned management consulting group specializing in major projects, transportation, energy, and infrastructure. We provide the insights, clarity, and structure the public and private sectors need to plan, fund, and deliver projects that create lasting economic and social value.
Whether it’s advising on high-speed rail, port operations, energy transition and electrification, structuring large-scale public-private partnerships, or crafting bespoke multimodal logistics strategies, we are brought in early because infrastructure decisions carry enormous weight.
Better decisions, better infrastructure
Our management consulting services span analytical, economics, commercial, financial, legal, policy, operational, regulatory, governance, policy, and regulatory expertise.
Governments, investors, and the industry turn to us to illuminate the path forward on:
- Planning major capital projects.
- Strengthening existing infrastructure systems and operations.
- We help articulate a government’s long-term vision for infrastructure development.
- Reforming policies, institutions, and market frameworks.
- Managing risks for billion-dollar investments in infrastructure projects.
- Assessing feasibility and long-term viability of proposed projects.
- Structuring deals and enabling successful transactions.
The impacts we unlock
Our work sets off chain reactions that improve livelihoods:
- Strengthening public policy and institutional capacity.
- Designing public‑private partnerships that are clear and mutually beneficial.
- Securing funding and catalyzing private investment.
- Mobilizing resources for resilience, climate adaptation, and economic growth.
Our work looks like this
- Help a North American transport agency solve urban freight challenges
- Guide a South Asian government to revitalize its power sector to meet growing energy demand
- Mobilize public and private investments for coastal protection in West Africa
We advise a global mix of clients:
- National, state, and local governments
- International organizations such as the World Bank
- Investors and lenders
- Infrastructure owners and operators
- Industry associations and advocacy organizations
Heritage and growth milestones
- Our heritage traces back to the Canadian Pacific Railway’s former consulting arm.
- In 2020, CPCS integrated into its group the leading U.K.-based transport advisory firm, First Class Partnerships (FCP), known for its rail expertise.
- In 2026, we acquired Mille407, a France-based port and maritime advisory firm, further enhancing our specialized advisory capabilities in multimodal transportation, logistics, and trade-enabling infrastructure.
Why we do what we do
Think about how our daily lives depend on airports, bridges, ports, roads, railroads, public transit, maritime shipping, as well as power generation facilities and electricity networks. Infrastructure is at the heart of how societies function, how people move, how economies grow, how communities stay connected, and how countries compete.
Add new technologies, climate change pressures, and fast-growing cities, making the right decisions for our infrastructure is more important than ever. This means doing business in a manner that is environmentally and socially responsible.
The key lies in strong institutions, sound public policies, and thoughtfully government frameworks in place. Only then can countries, cities and communities thrive.
In other words, CPCS provides solutions for growing economies. We don’t view projects as contracts; they’re opportunities to solve problems.
The CPCS Way
Entrepreneurial
Employee-owned company proudly headquartered in Canada
Bringing depth to complex projects
We don’t try to be
all things to all people
Punching above
our weight
Our depth and focus
enable us to find better, innovative solutions
Impact makers
Our work benefits people
and communities in both developed and emerging economies
Global leadership
Close to 1,700 projects completed in more than 120 countries.
Our story
Born in Canada
In the 1880s, the Government of Canada partnered with the private sector to build what we know today as the Canadian Pacific (CP) Railway company, and the physical rail infrastructure.
International rail expertise
CP’s far-reaching success over the years drove the organization to create in 1970 a consulting arm called CPCS Ltd. Through this consulting arm, CP exported its deep expertise in rail infrastructure development and management to governments and service providers around the world.
Independent, employee-owned firm
In 1979, CP ceased to own CPCS Ltd. In 1996, CPCS Transcom Limited, an employee-owned company, was created to succeed in the business of that earlier company, CPCS Ltd.
Today, CPCS is actively finding better infrastructure solutions for cities, governments, development banks, service providers, and private investors.
We advise infrastructure leaders, providing them with insights on high-stake matters the transportation and energy sectors are facing worldwide. This can range from crafting a transport decarbonization strategy to modernizing aging railways, and supporting governments’ transitions to cleaner sources of energy, or improving the delivery of major urban and transit projects, among others.
Leadership
Board of directors
Our Board includes external directors and representatives from CPCS at both the management and employee levels.
External Directors
Our other board members are Jean-François Arsenault, Marc-André Roy, Miho Ihara, Sarah Harlley, Camille Wu, and Jan Grabowiecki.
In their words
Integrity at CPCS
CPCS is committed to improving lives through better infrastructure solutions, and we are privileged to be trusted with advising infrastructure leaders and decision makers.
This trust is based on our commitment to fairness and transparency, our ethical behaviour, and highest levels of compliance with laws and standards.
CPCS runs a comprehensive Integrity Program to prevent, detect and respond to any integrity challenges.
To report an issue, violation, wrongdoing or complaint, please contact us confidentially and anonymously through this form.
