Tag Archives grain transportation

CN strike looms

Freight rates take higher-than-normal jump
Reported increases of 12 percent indicate that railways may be managing the revenue cap more aggressively
Western Canadian grain farmers will pay more money to move this year’s crop to export position. According to multiple sources, grain freight rates on some regulated railway routes have already risen by more than 12 percent since Sept. 1. “We’ve seen our freight rates on Canadian Pacific (Railway) go up by nearly 13 percent over […] Read more
Harvest delays slow grain movement

Rail, infrastructure gains give reason for optimism

CP expects to ship record amount of grain this year
The railway moved 22.5 million tonnes of grain and grain products between Aug. 1, 2018, and May 31, 2019, which is 500,000 tonnes more than it’s ever done at this point in the year
Canadian Pacific Railway expects to set a new record in 2018-19 for volumes of Canadian grain moved in a single crop year. Joan Hardy, CP’s vice-president of sales and marketing, grain and fertilizers, said CP is on pace to move more grain in the current crop year than ever before. Between Aug. 1, 2018, and […] Read more
CN to appeal Ottawa’s freight embargo ruling
The CTA’s Vancouver investigation makes it clear that freight embargoes are to be used only as a tool of last resort
The Canadian Transportation Agency has ruled that Canadian National Railway breached service obligations to shippers in the Canadian pulp industry when it announced plans to impose rail freight embargoes on pulp and paper shippers last September. The CTA’s findings were the result of an investigation launched by the agency in January — the first such […] Read more
CTA investigation report cites traffic volumes
Review of rail freight service issues in Vancouver finds increased car volumes last fall could have been a possible factor
A federal investigation into rail freight service issues in Vancouver last year has identified increased traffic as a potential contributing factor behind service delays and congestion. In a second inquiry report released last month, the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) said car volumes arriving at Canadian National Railway’s Thornton Railway Yard in Surrey during October and […] Read more
TSB advises extra precautions for mountain grain trains

CN to appeal federal ruling on freight embargoes
