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Crops, Machinery, Reuters

Canada, U.S. toughen oil train safety standards

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Washington/New York | Reuters — The U.S. and Canada on Friday announced long-awaited safety rules for trains carrying oil, as regulators seek to reduce risks after a series of explosive accidents that accompanied a surge in crude-by-rail shipments. The rules call for a rapid phase-out of older tank cars considered unsafe during derailments, and are […] Read more
Aerial view of Lac-Megantic after the July 2013 derailment and explosion that killed 47 people. (TSB.gc.ca)
Crops, Machinery, Reuters

Canada to set new speed limits on dangerous goods trains

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Updated April 25, 2015 — Ottawa | Reuters — Canada will immediately impose a new speed limit of 65 kilometres per hour for dangerous goods trains moving through urban areas with more than 100,000 people, Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said Thursday. This is one of many measures the Conservative government has introduced since the July […] Read more
"2013 sticks out like a sore thumb,” Quorum’s Mark Hemmes says of the big yield surprise.
Cereals, Crops

Grain wreck: Weaknesses in the freight system

The big crop and awful winter weren’t the only causes of 2014’s rail fiasco, says transport expert Mark Hemmes. There are also deep systemic issues that must be resolved

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Reading Time: 3 minutes If there’s anyone out there with a bird’s eye view of the rail system and exactly what happened last winter, it’s Quorum Corporation’s Mark Hemmes. The organization is the federally appointed monitor of grain transportation, charged with tracking how efficiently grain is moved out of the Prairies following partial deregulation of grain transportation around the […] Read more
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Crops, Machinery

CN overshoots 2013-14 grain handling revenue cap

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Reading Time: 2 minutes The Western Grains Research Foundation will get a $4.98 million gift this season from Canadian National Railway, but not out of holiday spirit per se. The Canadian Transportation Agency on Thursday ruled CN, during the 2013-14 crop year, exceeded its maximum allowable revenue from Prairie grain handling by $4,981,915, above its previously set “entitlement” of […] Read more
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Crops, Machinery, Markets

Grain freight minimums beneficial, but not seen as best solution

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Reading Time: 3 minutes CNS Canada –– The Canadian government’s decision to extend its order-in-council requiring a minimum tonnage of grain shipped by the two major railways each week will benefit the ag industry — but it’s not the best solution out there, according to some participants. “Extending the minimum volume requirements through the coming winter and spring season […] Read more
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Crops, Machinery, Weather

Mandatory minimum grain handle extended

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Reading Time: 2 minutes A new order-in-council will extend the federal government’s mandatory minimum weekly grain handle for Canada’s big two railways through March, just as the previous order expires. Federal Transport Minister Lisa Raitt and Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz on Saturday announced the mandatory minimums, which expired Saturday, are extended until March 28, 2015. The new order, however, adjusts the […] Read more
(GreatWesternRail.com)
Crops, Machinery, Markets

Shortlines shortchanged in Western Canada

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Reading Time: 3 minutes CNS Canada — Western Canada’s shortline railways are getting the short end of the stick as they struggle to meet their own commitments moving grain and other products along their tracks. A backlog of grain on the Prairies over the past winter, linked in part to poor rail movement, prompted the federal government to implement […] Read more
Prairie grain elevator
Crops, Guide Business

The Canadian-made bottleneck

The West’s grain paralysis was predictable. Canada has a Third World grain infrastructure, and it’s getting worse

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Reading Time: 7 minutes From the headlines, it can feel like Canada’s grain transportation woes have suddenly got worse. In fact, they’ve been looming for decades, or even longer. Nor have its inadequacies come as any surprise to people in the know. For instance, in their paper “Grain Transportation in Canada — Deregulation,” transportation experts Joseph Monteiro and Gerald […] Read more

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