CNS Canada — Canadian Pacific Railway managed to slightly increase its grain shipping volumes last year, despite the extreme cold. CP moved 25.8 million tonnes of western Canadian grain, grain […] Read more
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Railways say they’re ready for large shipping season

CP conductors, engineers ratify four-year deal
Conductors and engineers for Canadian Pacific Railway have voted for labour peace following a 33-hour strike in late May. CP’s 3,100-odd conductors and engineers, represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail […] Read more

CP conductors, engineers to get nine per cent raise over four years
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 […] Read more

Deal in principle announced for Churchill railway, port
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 […] Read more

Churchill possibly to return to shipping grain
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 […] Read more

Look at other high speed rail options, say farmers
An organization opposed to the province’s high speed rail plan believes it has a good alternative for the province – high performance rail. High performance rail runs much faster than […] Read more

Grain handle down in CP’s ‘best-ever’ fourth quarter
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 […] Read more

Canadian companies struggle to plan for post-NAFTA world
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 […] Read more

Harvey’s floods scatter cattle in Texas, swamp cotton fields
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 […] Read more

Deal reached to avert CN strike, union head says
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, […] Read more