The world sorey needs more grains and Canada has a bin-busting harvest this year -- but shippers fear there aren’t enough rail cars to transport it all.
“We have to make up these orders,” Wade Sobkowich, executive director of the Winnipeg-based Western Grain Elevator Association, said Tuesday in a phone interview. “We were concerned going into this year and unfortunately it feels like our concerns are founded.” “CP is working diligently with grain customers,” spokeswoman Salem Woodrow said in an email, noting the railway supplied more than 6,500 hopper cars last week and shipped 709,342 metric tons of grain and grain products, a 10 per cent increase from a week earlier.
They’ll be busy transporting oil because our governments won’t sanction pipelines.
I work on the Great Lakes. Factor in Shipping Tonnages. You should NOT have to be told this.