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Rail Revenue Cap Going Up Seven Per Cent

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“Farmers are already overpaying the railways so this extra seven per cent just adds insult to injury.” – JOHN LYONS Western farmers are likely to pay more to ship their grain by rail in the new crop year starting Aug. 1 due to higher railway operating costs. Many farmers believe they already pay too much.
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Federal Officials Watching Container Capacity Issue

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The Canadian Transportation Agency is monitoring container ship capacity for export cargoes, but can’t take any action until someone complains about a lack of capacity, or rate increases. Alex Robertson, a CTA spokesman, said in an interview the agency has been made aware of the problem “and is monitoring the situation.” But it can’t take
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CN Grain Revenue Over Cap: CTA

The Canadian Transportation Agency ruled Dec. 31 that Canadian National Railway (CN) earned too much money from hauling grain in the 2008-09 crop year and ordered it to hand over more than $700,000. Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), meanwhile, did not exceed the government’s grain revenue cap, the CTA said.CN’s grain revenue of $479,788,412 was $683,269,
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Grain Moved At A Record Pace End Of Last Crop Year

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“I really do see this as a sustainable model and you’ll see more of it at CP.” – MURRAY HAMILTON The record pace of grain shipping the final half of the last crop year was no fluke according to Canada’s railways, even though some observers suspect the drop in other rail traffic due to the
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Rail Service Review Enters Next Phase

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“Either we have adequate competition or, where we don’t have adequate competition… we need effective legislation to simulate this balance.” – WADE SOBKOWICH Farm groups, grain companies and railway shippers are pleased a federal government review of railway service has taken another step forward. Rob Merrifield, minister of state for transport announced Sept. 23 the
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Rathwell-Nesbitt Short Line Being Explored

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Around 1 0 0 people attended a meeting in Holland Aug. 6, to explore purchasing part of the Glenboro subdivision from the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) to set up a short line railway. Meeting organizers Bob Wheeler, a business development specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives and Carman MLA Blaine Pedersen, said they
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CPR’s Revenue Cap Overage Reduced Due To Court Ruling

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Although the WGRF regrets the loss of any revenue, it knows overages it collects from the railways is farmers’ money. Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) didn’t overcharge western farmers for hauling their grain during the 2007-08 crop year by quite as much as first determined by the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA). As a result, the Western
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Grain Freight Charges Should Drop Next Crop… In Theory

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Western farmers, on average, should pay 7.4 per cent less to move their grain to export in the 2009-10 crop year that starts Aug. 1 due mainly to lower railway fuel costs, the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) announced April 30. Assuming normal grain-shipping volumes, farmers collectively should, on average, pay $28.41 a tonne to ship
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CTA Ruling Helps Maintain Rail Competition Near Winnipeg

Paterson Grain has won its fight to continue being served directly by the American-based BNSF Railway Company (BN) at its Lilyfield elevator near Winnipeg. Feb. 9 the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) ruled against Canadian National Railway Company’s (CN) efforts to block BN’s access via a rail car interchange with CN. “This upholds the rights we
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Farmers urged to lobby for rail costing review

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The millions of dollars the railways are reported to have overcharged western grain farmers underscores the need to review railway costs – and to update the formula used to determine how much the railways can earn hauling grain. So said Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) spokeswoman Maureen Fitzhenry in an interview last week: “We need to

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