Insights and Stories on Ports

Grain handler group seeks Vancouver port governance overhaul

Feb. 18, 2021 at 2:11 pm CST

Vancouver, Canada’s biggest port and the most important to Western Canada’s economy, needs major changes in how it operates, the Western Grain Elevator Association (WGEA) says. As a statutory monopoly the port authority is both a port developer and regulator putting it in a conflict of interest, according to WGEA […]

U.S. grains: Corn tops US$5 for first time since 2014

Jan. 6, 2021 at 6:44 pm CST

By Christopher Walljasper

U.S. grains: Soybeans touch six-year high on Argentina strike, weather

Dec. 21, 2020 at 6:32 pm CST

By Christopher Walljasper

Pulse industry watching container supply closely

Oct. 30, 2020 at 10:39 am CDT

By Allan Dawson

CBOT weekly outlook: Markets prepare for Laura

Aug. 26, 2020 at 2:10 pm CDT

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

CN sees eastern network revival on supply chain diversity, ports

Jun. 22, 2020 at 3:12 am CDT

Montreal | Reuters — Canadian National Railway, the country’s biggest railroad, is banking on growth in consumer products and supply-chain diversification in Asia, to revive traffic on its underutilized eastern Canadian rail lines, the company’s CEO told Reuters Friday. Coronavirus, which hit China’s industrial production, along with U.S. tariffs on […]

By Allison Lampert

Pulse weekly outlook: Increased demand seen, but problems loom

Mar. 17, 2020 at 11:33 am CDT

MarketsFarm — Unlike other commodities, pulses aren’t yet feeling ill effects from an economic downturn due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, according to Marcos Mosnaim of Globeways Canada in Mississauga. With consumers panic-buying, there has been increased demand for pulses, as many are non-perishable, Mosnaim said. “These products will be […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Argentine farmers strike to protest export tax hike

Mar. 9, 2020 at 3:34 pm CDT

Buenos Aires | Reuters — Argentine farmers began a four-day sales strike on Monday to protest the government’s hike of export taxes for soybeans and their byproducts, though shipments were not impacted in the major global food exporter. Three of the South American country’s four main rural associations announced the […]

By Maximilian Heath

Canada rules out sending police in on rail protests

Feb. 14, 2020 at 7:35 pm CST

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada’s Liberal government said on Friday it was deeply concerned about protests by aboriginal activists that are blocking some key railway lines but rejected a call to send in the police. Indigenous communities opposed to the construction of a gas pipeline project in British Columbia started […]

By David Ljunggren

CN strike drags on, hitting grain exports, fertilizer output

Nov. 25, 2019 at 4:37 pm CST

Ottawa/Montreal | Reuters — A prolonged strike at Canadian National Railway, the country’s largest railroad, sent further shocks through the economy on Monday with grain shipments scuttled and layoffs planned at fertilizer producers and an auto shipment terminal. As Canada’s biggest rail strike in a decade entered its seventh day, […]

By Allison Lampert Kelsey Johnson

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