Insights and Stories on Cp

U.S. soy shippers say rail service improved

May. 4, 2015 at 3:43 pm CDT

The U.S. Soy Transportation Coalition (STC) says it’s pleased with recent improvements to rail service, and is giving especially high marks to Canadian Pacific Railway (CP). Last week, the STC and the University of Minnesota concluded the research project “2014 Harvest: Attaching a Garden Hose to a Fire Hydrant,” which […]

Cost index trimmed for railways’ grain revenue cap

Apr. 30, 2015 at 5:10 pm CDT

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Arbitrator named for CP talks with running trades

Apr. 25, 2015 at 9:42 am CDT

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CN, CP book higher grain revenues in Q1

Apr. 22, 2015 at 6:48 pm CDT

By Staff

Railways’ mandatory minimum grain handles ending

Mar. 28, 2015 at 2:33 pm CDT

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Raitt won’t tell railways where to ship grain for now

Mar. 25, 2015 at 6:26 pm CDT

Ottawa | Reuters — The Canadian government will not, for now, start telling railways where to ship farmers’ grain but it will decide within days whether to extend its requirements on how much grain they must haul, Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said Wednesday. In an interview in her parliamentary office, […]

By David Ljunggren Randall Palmer

Railways can’t dictate terms on grain backlog, Harper says

Mar. 12, 2015 at 5:29 pm CDT

Reuters — Canadian Pacific Railway and Canadian National Railway have such huge market power that they cannot be allowed to dictate how Canada’s grain shipment backlog is cleared, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Thursday. Harper said in an appearance in Saskatchewan that the grain backlog was not nearly as […]

By Randall Palmer

CP’s shopcraft staff ratify new labour deal

Mar. 9, 2015 at 7:57 pm CDT

Repair, maintenance and locomotive and rail car inspection staff at Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) have voted to ratify the last-minute deal that kept them off the picket line. The 1,625 unionized workers, represented by Unifor’s CP shopcraft bargaining unit, voted 79 per cent in favour of their four-year deal at […]

By Staff

Rail consolidation unlikely to involve CP for now: CEO

Mar. 2, 2015 at 5:08 pm CST

Toronto | Reuters — Canadian Pacific Railway is unlikely to be involved in the consolidation of the North American industry in the short term, CEO Hunter Harrison said on Monday. Canada’s No. 2 railway, which also has operations in the U.S., discussed a deal with CSX Corp. last year but […]

By Allison Martell

Repair, inspection staff at CN prep for strike vote

Feb. 19, 2015 at 12:30 pm CST

Locomotive and rail car maintenance, repair and inspection staff at Canadian National Railway (CN) plan to take a strike vote early next week, their union said Thursday. Unifor, the largest union at CN with over 4,800 members, said Thursday it will hold the vote over a period of up to […]

By Staff