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North American Railroad Shipper Survey
RBC Dominion Securities this week released its RBC Compass, 2015 North American Railroad Shipper Survey. The survey taps into the views of the Class 1 railroads’ top customers, with key findings focusing on shippers’ expectations for 2015 regarding: the direction of rail rates; volume growth; and service performance. This year, the survey also solicited shippers’…
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CN to Resolve BC Rail Car Backlog
Canadian National Railway said this week it’s alleviating a shortage of rail capacity for lumber shipments in British Columbia. The largest Canadian railroad’s ability to move wood products is gradually catching up with demand following extreme winter conditions in North America this year, Emily Hamer, a Vancouver-based CN spokesperson, said Thursday in a phone interview…
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Lumber News Archives: November 2013
Timberland Management: Governments ; The Canadian lumber industry : 2012 ; Lumber Prices in China ; Lumber Yard Fatality ; Canada, US Trade Balance ; Canada’s Manufacturing Survey ; Housing Affordability, US ; Associated Hardwoods Builds Sawmill ;Trade Agreements and Tarriffs ; USDA to Fund Biomass Fuel Research ; Housing Starts, Canada ; Japan…
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Lumber News Archives: Oct 2013
Illegal Timber Harvesting ; Madison’s Timber Preview ; CN Rail Labour Contract Talks Stall ; UK Timber Shortage ; US Builder Confidence : October 2013 ; Oregon’s Forestry Employment ; Large Timberland Sale Politics and Lumber Exports ; Labour Negotiations Move to Southern Interior ; Canada Housing Starts ; Housing Starts, Japan ; 2013 US…
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Transportation Crisis, Canada
Leaders of the union representing 3,000 conductors, yard workers, and traffic coordinators at the railway will meet on Friday to decide whether to strike or take other action after union members narrowly rejected a second tentative contract deal with Canada’s biggest railway. The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference said in a statement that it still has…
