British Columbia grain producers are closely watching developments in the nationwide railway dispute triggered on Wednesday night, saying its impacts could soon spread beyond farmers to producers of food and beer.
Canadian National Railway Co. trains have begun rolling again, but it's unclear when freight movements will fully resume after workers issued a strike notice and pushed back against efforts by the federal government to get them back on the job.
Compared to trains, she said trucks don’t have enough capacity. One train is able to carry as much grain as 300 double-length Super-B trucks, and there's "no way" to get that many on the road, Willms said in an interview."The Port of Prince Rupert, for example, so many families dependent on work there, dramatically impacted by this shutdown.
"We have gone all summer without income, and so we get to harvest and we start shipping our grain, that's when we get our income," she said."And pretty soon the beer is not going to be flowing — we supply barley for beer." The commuter train between Vancouver and Mission, B.C., has been unable to operate without locked-out CPKC rail traffic controllers.
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