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Canadian exporters stymied by high costs

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Canadian exporters are stymied by higher costs, including government fees, than their competitors and as a result Canada is only doing OK as an exporter, says Rob Bryson, vice-president of Parrish & Heimbecker. Despite buoyant commodity markets, the world is walking on the edge of another bout of bad economic times, he warned the annual
News, Pulses

Rail shippers look to legislation to address service issues

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The federal process to negotiate service level agreements or a dispute settlement mechanism for railway customers didn’t deliver, but the exercise was still a success, according to Greg Cherewyk, executive director of Pulse Canada. That’s because it clearly demonstrates federal legislation is required to make it happen. “The Dinning process has done a great job
Crops

Liberals Back Shippers On Rail Service

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The federal Liberals have thrown their support behind rail shippers lobbying the federal government for regulations to “rebalance” their bargaining power with the railways. But it isn’t the Liberals shippers have to convince, it’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper. While shippers can point to the interim report on rail service that concludes substandard rail performance is
News

RBC Survey Fuels Criticisms Of Railways

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Abusiness survey done by the Royal Bank has found widespread dissatisfaction with the quality of railway freight service in Canada. The survey was released in mid November as the federal government’s Rail Freight Ser vice Panel worked on its final report to Transport Minister Chuck Strahl on how to deal with shipper complaints about rail
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More Shippers Rap Freight Service Panel Report

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Shipper frustration with the idea of waiting until 2013 at the earliest to get better treatment from CN and CP is heating up. The Coalition of Rail Shippers has sent a memo to all MPs calling on the federal government “to act decisively now to address shortcomings in rail service.” The Rail Freight Service Review
Opinion

This Is Efficiency?

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We’ve all heard tales of the inefficiencies that have plagued centrally planned economies in far off places. The compounding effects – sluggish supply chains, lower productivity, missed delivery targets and people who could be working standing around with nothing to do – eventually drag the economy so deeply into an abyss, it takes a revolution
Cereals, News

Canadian Wheat Board Gains From Soft Freight Costs

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Areduction in ocean freight rates has made the Canadian Wheat Board more competitive in shipping grain to distant markets such as Southeast Asia, a CWB official said Feb. 16. Dry bulk freight rates have weakened in recent weeks due in part to slower demand for commodities. The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, which tracks
News

Shipping in urgent London talks on credit worries

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Ship industry talks targeting counter-party credit risk were being held in London Nov. 19 in a bid to stem the slide in dry commodity freight markets and kick-start trade, organizers said. Bill Lines, spokesman for the Baltic Exchange, the world’s leading maritime marketplace, said the hastily convened talks were being held to restore confidence in

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