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Container companies are choosing to eliminate the backhaul from Canada, which hurts exports, Pulse Canada says.
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Ottawa urged to tackle shipping container crisis

Pulse Canada says pulse farmers and the entire Canadian economy are being damaged

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The Canadian government must address the container crunch hurting the nation’s pulse growers and every part of the Canadian economy, says Pulse Canada. “It’s no secret that life is getting more expensive by the day here in Canada, and the lack of containers is playing a big role in driving up the cost of living
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Pulse Canada alleges anti-competitive behaviour by container lines

Others see the true problem as demand simply exceeding the available supply

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Pulse Canada alleges container shipping lines are acting as a cartel to maximize profits at the expense of the world’s shippers.  “They clearly see how this works now and they are getting smarter collectively as a group,” Greg Northey, Pulse Canada’s vice-president of corporate affairs, said in an interview Aug. 30.  “They are absolutely controlling
“The actual supply chain for containerized grain of all types out of Western Canada is essentially broken.” – Greg Northey, Pulse Canada.
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The missing link: Inside the shipping container crisis

Stuck between a shipping cartel and COVID, Canada’s pulse industry risks becoming landlocked

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For many years the Prairie pulse sector revolved around an orderly flow of shipping containers. They moved out of manufacturing hubs like southern China stuffed with consumer goods of all sorts, to ports in Vancouver and Prince Rupert. There they were emptied, and loaded again with outbound goods — in this case pulse crops like
Gord Bacon, former CEO of Pulse Canada and now a Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame inductee, spent decades devoted to catapulting the sector’s profile to the next level.
Faces of ag, Farmit Manitoba

Bacon a pulse promoter extraordinaire

Faces of Ag: From decades of work elevating the pulse sector to helping make 2016 the UN’s International Year of Pulses, Gord Bacon has had a long, interesting career

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Getting Gordon Bacon to talk about himself isn’t easy. The recently retired longtime CEO of Pulse Canada, who will be inducted into the Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame Nov. 21, prefers to talk about food, nutrition, health and sustainability. It’s not surprising with his passion for pulses — leguminous edible seeds such as dry peas,
File photo of the Port of Montreal. (Guy Banville/iStock/Getty Images)
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Back-to-work rule for Montreal dockworkers clears Parliament

Bill granted royal assent Friday night

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A week-long strike by dockworkers at the Port of Montreal is expected to conclude after federal back-to-work legislation passed Parliament Friday evening. Bill C-29, introduced Tuesday in the House of Commons, cleared third reading in the Commons Wednesday and received three readings in the Senate and royal assent Friday. The port’s longshore workers, represented by
Railways are moving record amounts of grain -- but that's needed because farmers keep growing so much.
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Mixed messages: Declining order fulfilment accompanies grain shipping record

Increased grain production means new records are needed to move the crop, shippers say

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Canada’s two main railways keep breaking grain movement records, but oddly, on-time car delivery has fallen compared to the same period last crop year. It’s counterintuitive, but the explanation is simple: grain companies have ordered 13 per cent more cars this crop year, and the railways, while setting records, aren’t keeping up with the increased
Pulse industry watching container supply closely
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Pulse industry watching container supply closely

One major container firm is shipping them back to Asia empty to meet a surge in demand

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Pulse Canada is keeping an eye on container supplies following the recent announcement by a major supplier it would be shipping them back empty to Asia from North America to meet a surge in demand. Why it matters: Canadian pulse crop exporters rely on shipping containers to get their products to international customers. A lack
Hapag-Lloyd containers at a shipping terminal in Hamburg in March 2017. (File photo: Reuters/Fabian Bimmer)
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Pulse industry watching container supply closely

One major container firm is shipping them back to Asia empty to meet a surge in demand

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Pulse Canada is keeping an eye on container supplies following the recent announcement by a major supplier it would be shipping them back empty to Asia from North America to meet a surge in demand. Why it matters: Canadian pulse crop exporters rely on shipping containers to get their products to international customers. A lack
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India restores reduced tariff on lentil imports

All but U.S. lentil imports to get better break on duty, again

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India has reinstated a reduced-rate tariff on imports of lentils from Canada as well as from all lentil-exporting nations other than the United States. Saskatchewan Pulse Growers on Friday reported receiving a Sept. 17 notification of amendment from India’s finance ministry regarding customs tariffs on lentils, which in Canada’s case had snapped back to 33

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