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CP conductors, engineers to get nine per cent raise over four years

By Allison Lampert, GFM Network News June 6, 2018

Montreal | Reuters — Canadian Pacific Railway conductors and locomotive engineers will get a nine per cent salary hike over four years as part of a tentative agreement reached last week with the Teamsters, spokesmen from both the union and CP said on Wednesday. The agreement, which must first be ratified by members to go

The Port of Churchill in 2015. (CNS Canada photo by Jade Markus)

Crops

Deal in principle announced for Churchill railway, port

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 30, 2018

The federal government has announced an “agreement in principle” which will see a new partnership fix up northern Manitoba’s washed-out Hudson Bay Railway and take over the mothballed Port of Churchill. Details of the agreement were slim at best in the government’s announcement Wednesday, except to say the buying group slated to take over the

Crops

Churchill possibly to return to shipping grain

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm, GFM Network News May 4, 2018

CNS Canada — Grain could once again be shipped out of northern Manitoba’s Port of Churchill if all goes according to plan for a new potential ownership group. “The port has got all of the grain handling equipment and simply said, the first thing we want to do is resume that commercial activity,” said Louis

Crops

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

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

Markets

Canadian companies struggle to plan for post-NAFTA world

By GFM Network News January 11, 2018

Toronto | Reuters — Canadian industries that would be most acutely impacted by the death of the North American Free Trade Agreement are unable to meaningfully plan for a possible post-NAFTA world given the uncertainty of what could replace it, analysts and executives said. With three quarters of Canadian exports landing in the U.S., the

Livestock, Weather

Harvey’s floods scatter cattle in Texas, swamp cotton fields

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume, Theopolis Waters August 29, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — South Texas ranchers are scrambling to relocate cattle from massive flooding spawned by Tropical Storm Harvey, with many hauling livestock up to the north of the state while others rush to move the animals to higher ground nearby. About 1.2 million cattle are located in a 54-county disaster area drenched by

Crops

Deal reached to avert CN strike, union head says

By Allison Lampert, David Ljunggren, GFM Network News May 29, 2017

Montreal/Ottawa | Reuters — Canadian National Railway and a union representing 3,000 conductors on Monday reached an agreement in principle ahead of a looming strike deadline at Canada’s largest railroad, said a top union official. The union had set a strike deadline of Tuesday at 4 a.m. ET after the railroad announced new work rules

Local news

The little railway that could

Boundary Trails Railway Co. had a record year in a year of epic railway snags

By Allan Dawson January 8, 2015

Southern Manitoba’s Boundary Trails Railway Company (BTRC) had geography on its side last year, more than tripling the number of cars it handled. The 38-km short line, which runs from Morden to Binney Corner just west of Manitou, handled 619 grain cars in the 2013-14 shipping year. The company is owned by 90 shareholders, mostly

Cereals, Crops, National news

Farmers, grain companies want federal government to continue railway shipping targets

Ritz’s office says he and the transport minister haven’t made a decision yet

By Allan Dawson November 6, 2014

Farm groups and grain companies said last week their grain transportation woes are far from over as the federal government considers whether to keep or lift minimum movement orders for the railways. In an emailed statement Oct. 31, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz’s office appeared to backtrack from a news story earlier in the week saying

Cereals, News

Calls coming for new car czar

Ian McCreary says the grain transportation system is lacking independent,  third-party oversight for setting shipping targets and rail car allocation

By Allan Dawson April 9, 2014

Is the creation of a new car czar similar to how the Grain Transportation Agency operated two decades ago the way to keep the grain flowing smoothly to export? Speakers at last week’s grain transportation summit here said someone or something needs to co-ordinate car allocations, especially when demand exceeds supply. Even CN Rail seems

Daily Network News

U.S. Supreme Court to hear Bayer’s bid to curb Roundup cases

Canada-China roundup: Producer groups applaud tariff relief; pork left out; mix of criticism and praise from Trump administration

Opinion: Is a closer trade relationship with China a security risk?

Tag Archives railway

CP conductors, engineers to get nine per cent raise over four years

Deal in principle announced for Churchill railway, port

Churchill possibly to return to shipping grain

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

Canadian companies struggle to plan for post-NAFTA world

Harvey’s floods scatter cattle in Texas, swamp cotton fields

Deal reached to avert CN strike, union head says

The little railway that could

Farmers, grain companies want federal government to continue railway shipping targets

Calls coming for new car czar

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