Canada’s two national railways think they can keep up 2008-09’s impressive grain shipping performance, grain transportation experts say.
“Certainly our goal is to make sure it is sustainable,” said Murray Hamilton of Canadian Pacific Railway at the Fields on Wheels conference in Winnipeg. “I really do like to think that we have made sustainable differences in terms of demand-pull.”
Quorum Corp. president Mark Hemmes said he’d heard the same thing from CPR’s rival.
“The answer (Canadian National Railways) gave was an unequivocal yes, they think they can,” said Hemmes.
Last crop year saw unloads at levels scarcely thought possible a few years ago. More than 5,000 cars were unloaded weekly for 11 weeks running.
