Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway moved more than 30 million tonnes of Prairie grain since the summer. Read more
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But when grain started coming off the fields, CN and CP struggled to provide enough railcars to get it onto waiting ships in Vancouver. In one week in mid-September, asaid the railroads stiffed them on about 30 per cent of railcar orders. The railways’ response was, effectively, that they were doing the best they reasonably could. They haul more than just grain, and there was intense demand for coal, oil and potash. During a wide-ranging interview with thein November, CP chief executive Keith Creel said designing a rail system to be able to handle the occasional peak in demand is like building a church to seat everyone who shows up for Easter. It’ll have empty seats the rest of the year.
“We think that’s good,” he said. “I think that speaks volumes about how we’ve been conditioned over the years.”The backlogs this fall helped force a national reckoning on the state of the supply chain, to the point that industry leaders were calling on the government to break CN and CP’s stranglehold on the rail system.Article content
A cargo ship is loaded with grain at a terminal in Vancouver. CN and CP Rail blamed this fall’s struggles mostly on rules at the port of Vancouver that prevents grain ships from loading in the rain.
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