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Richardson elevators expanding to feed ‘high-efficiency’ trains

Jun. 26, 2023 at 7:56 pm CDT

Grain handler Richardson International plans to expand rail car spots at eight Prairie elevators on Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) lines as the railway gears up for longer trains with new higher-volume hopper cars. Winnipeg-based Richardson on Monday announced expanded rail car spots for its elevators at Lacombe, Carseland, Provost […]

Railways overshoot grain revenue limits for 2019-20

Jan. 7, 2021 at 5:49 am CST

By Dave Bedard

Grain exports flow fast as pandemic lockdowns clear rail capacity

Jun. 17, 2020 at 7:25 pm CDT

By Rod Nickel

CN reports grain movement back at pre-strike pace

Dec. 13, 2019 at 7:41 pm CST

By Allan Dawson

CP grain train ‘began to move on its own’ before fatal derailment

Feb. 5, 2019 at 7:28 pm CST

By Reuters

Three crew die in CP grain train derailment

Feb. 4, 2019 at 12:43 pm CST

Toronto | Reuters — Three crew members died on Monday when a Canadian Pacific Railway grain train derailed in British Columbia, a Transportation Safety Board (TSB) spokesman said. The accident occurred when a train carrying 40 to 60 grain hopper cars derailed near Field, B.C., the TSB spokesman said. TSB […]

By Reuters

World crop briefs: Black Sea’s oilseed yields seen larger

Oct. 17, 2018 at 5:05 pm CDT

CNS Canada — The Black Sea region’s oilseed crop for 2018-19 is estimated 160,000 tonnes higher, at 43.36 million tonnes, according to the latest estimates by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In its October estimates, USDA estimated Ukraine rapeseed production would come in at 100,000 tonnes more than previous estimates […]

By MarketsFarm Team

Railways say they’re ready for large shipping season

Aug. 21, 2018 at 2:21 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Canadian Pacific Railway managed to slightly increase its grain shipping volumes last year, despite the extreme cold. CP moved 25.8 million tonnes of western Canadian grain, grain products, soybeans and non-regulated principal field crops during the 2017-18 crop year. That’s a one per cent increase from the […]

By Terry Fries

CN apologizes as farm groups, Ottawa press on rail service

Mar. 7, 2018 at 5:18 pm CST

Canada’s largest railway has taken the unusual step of apologizing for its pace of grain delivery in recent weeks and pledging “immediate steps” to improve its grain handle. After parting ways with its CEO Luc Jobin on Monday, Canadian National Railway (CN), through interim CEO Jean-Jacques Ruest, said Wednesday it […]

By Staff

Larger elevators, smaller rail cars seen in grain’s future

Nov. 15, 2017 at 8:40 pm CST

Winnipeg | CNS Canada –– Heading into the future, elevators will be more efficient and trains will carry more grain, according to industry professionals at the Grain World conference in Winnipeg. “I think there’s a real shift happening from low efficiency to the higher-efficiency facilities,” Karl Gerrand, CEO of G3, […]

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm

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