A major washout has halted traffic along part of Canadian National Railway Co.'s main line in Nova Scotia after torrential rain and flooding struck the province over the weekend.
The disruption threatens to constrict the flow of container goods from Halifax to Montreal, Toronto and Chicago only days after service resumed across the country at B.C. ports, and raises alarming questions about infrastructure stability amid growing climate volatility.
Canada's biggest railway declined to offer an estimate as to when service on the now-unmoored track would resume. No new bookings are available until Friday between Halifax and Moncton, which sits about 260 kilometres northwest of the Nova Scotia capital. "The shippers and importers really depend a lot on this link. The alternative, of course, would be to use trucks, but you can imagine the cost of moving containers by truck from Halifax to Montreal and Toronto."
"The next question is, what do we do about it? In some cases, you could have alternate routes," Roy said."But that's not always the case."
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