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A freight train at Manchac, La., about 75 km east of Baton Rouge. (CN.ca)

U.S. rail regulator tackles railroads over customer complaints

By GFM Network News March 19, 2018

Reuters — The top U.S. rail regulator has asked major railroads for information on service levels before meeting disgruntled shippers and other customers over complaints about service delays and higher costs. In letters to the CEOs of the railroads, dated Friday and posted Monday on the U.S. Surface Transportation Board’s (STB) website, the regulator requested

Pass Bill C-49 before Parliament breaks in June: That was KAP president Dan Mazier’s message to the Commons agriculture committee March 19 in Ottawa. (ParlVU screen shot)

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Get grain moving again, KAP says

By Allan Dawson, GFM Network News March 19, 2018

Move western grain, ASAP. That’s the blunt and urgent message Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) president Dan Mazier told an emergency meeting of the House of Commons’ agriculture committee Monday in Ottawa. The 2013-14 grain shipping backlog cost Western farmers around $6.5 billion and the current one will cost billions again, Mazier said. The first step

CN locomotives in Winnipeg. (Photo courtesy CN)

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CN apologizes as farm groups, Ottawa press on rail service

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 7, 2018

Canada’s largest railway has taken the unusual step of apologizing for its pace of grain delivery in recent weeks and pledging “immediate steps” to improve its grain handle. After parting ways with its CEO Luc Jobin on Monday, Canadian National Railway (CN), through interim CEO Jean-Jacques Ruest, said Wednesday it “apologize(s) for not meeting the

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Farmers seek ‘urgent’ action from Senate on rail service

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 1, 2018

Groups representing Canadian grain growers touched down in Ottawa Thursday to urge quick passage of legislation to avoid a sequel to the grain handling logjam of 2013-14. Representatives from the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, Grain Growers of Canada, Keystone Agricultural Producers, Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan, Alberta Federation of Agriculture and B.C. Agriculture Council went

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Tepid rail service cripples farmer deliveries on Prairies

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News February 28, 2018

CNS Canada — Prairie farmers are struggling to generate cash flow for their operations due to the lack of rail cars that are available to pick up their grain. “Spring is coming up, farmers need cash flow and we don’t get cash flow if your grain is sitting in a bin waiting for a train

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Prairie grain movement not perfect, but not in crisis

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin January 22, 2018

CNS Canada — Canadian grain exports are moving out of the country at a similar pace as they were a year ago, but there are still some challenges along the logistical chain. “Right now we’re looking at the second largest supply of grain that we’ve ever had to move,” said Mark Hemmes, president of Quorum

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Grain handle down in CP’s ‘best-ever’ fourth quarter

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 19, 2018

U.S. income tax reform and significant increases in non-grain traffic more than offset a dip in Canadian Pacific Railway’s grain handle in its fourth quarter of 2017. Calgary-based CP on Thursday reported net income of $984 million on $1.713 billion in gross revenues in what it described as its “best-ever” fourth quarter, up from $384

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CN, CP roll over revenue caps for 2016-17

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 22, 2017

Canada’s big two railways have both overshot the maximum revenue they’re allowed to keep for ferrying the 2016-17 grain crop off the Prairies. The Canadian Transportation Agency on Thursday issued its annual determination of how much, if any, revenue Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) made over their maximum grain revenue entitlements

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Railway CEO Hunter Harrison, 73

By GFM Network News December 18, 2017

New York | Reuters –– CSX Corp. CEO Hunter Harrison has died, the U.S. freight railway operator said on Saturday, just a few days after announcing that the veteran rail executive it hired earlier this year to boost its profits had taken a medical leave of absence. Harrison, 73, died “due to unexpectedly severe complications

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CP conductors, engineers reject short-term deal

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 2, 2017

Unionized conductors and engineers at Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) have voted down a proposed one-year renewal of their collective agreement. The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, whose train and engine (T+E) unit represents about 3,050 Canadian conductors and engineers at CP, announced Wednesday its membership had voted 67.1 per cent against the extension. Negotiators with CP

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U.S. rail regulator tackles railroads over customer complaints

Get grain moving again, KAP says

CN apologizes as farm groups, Ottawa press on rail service

Farmers seek ‘urgent’ action from Senate on rail service

Tepid rail service cripples farmer deliveries on Prairies

Prairie grain movement not perfect, but not in crisis

Grain handle down in CP’s ‘best-ever’ fourth quarter

CN, CP roll over revenue caps for 2016-17

Railway CEO Hunter Harrison, 73

CP conductors, engineers reject short-term deal

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