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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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Port Metro Vancouver
This past spring about 1,300 union and non-union container truckers withdrew their services at British Columbia’s biggest port, in Vancouver, complaining of long wait times to pick up and drop off containers and the undercutting of rates. The 28-day strike was resolved at the end of March but it took almost six weeks to resolve…
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Port Metro Vancouver Trucker Strike Resolved
Vancouver port truckers reach deal to end strike Port Metro Vancouver container truck drivers to be back at work Thursday morning CBC News Posted: Mar 26, 2014 4:40 PM PT Last Updated: Mar 27, 2014 6:56 AM PT http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-port-truckers-reach-deal-to-end-strike-1.2587948 Port Metro Vancouver truckers reach deal to end strike (updated) Agreement includes both unionized and non-unionized…
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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…
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North American Freight
FROM THE MARCH 07 ISSUE OF MADISON’S LUMBER REPORTER: Canada’s prairie grain farmers have been watching the quality and value of their crops decline over the last few months in fields or in storage due to a rail transportation bottleneck. The situation got so dire this week in Vancouver, BC, that Federal Minister of Transport…
