May 3, 2023 | Canada, CN, CPKC, Headlines, Mexico, UP
(Source: Trains Magazine, May 2, 2023) Canadian National, Union Pacific, and Ferromex have significantly tightened the schedules for the new intermodal service they will launch on May 15 to link Canada and Detroit with Mexico. Full story: Trains...
May 2, 2023 | Canada, CPKC, Headlines
(Source: West Central Online, May 1, 2023) CPKC’s assistant vice president of sales and marketing – bulk Elizabeth Hucker says for the last three weeks they’ve moved an average of 539,000 metric tons of grain per week. She notes that’s well...
April 25, 2023 | Canada, CN, CPKC, Headlines, Mexico, UP
(Source: Associated Press, April 24, 2023) Three major freight railroads responded Monday to the Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger with an agreement to work together on a competing service to carry shipments across North America. Canadian National, Union...
April 25, 2023 | Canada, CN, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Teamsters Canada Rail Conference press release, April 23, 2023) LAVAL, Quebec — The Teamsters Canadian Rail Conference (TCRC) and Canadian National (CN) have successfully reached a tentative agreement. The agreement must now be voted on by approximately 6,000...
March 29, 2023 | Canada, CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, Mexico
(Source: The Loadstar, March 28, 2023) The Canadian government is giving C$18m (US$13.07m) towards establishing a rail park in Winnipeg to facilitate the intermodal transfer of cargo between rail, truck and air. Full story: The Loadstar
March 22, 2023 | Canada, CN, Headlines, Unions
(Source: Unifor press release, March 20, 2023) MONTREAL — Unifor has reached tentative collective agreements with CN Rail, averting strike action. “These negotiations were fraught with challenges, including demands for concessions by CN,” said Unifor National...
February 10, 2023 | Canada, CN, Contract Negotiations, Headlines, Unions
(Source: Canadian Press, February 9, 2023) Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. says it has reached a tentative agreement with the union representing about 550 administrative support and intermodal employees in Canada. The railway says terms of the tentative agreement with...
January 18, 2023 | Canada, CP, Headlines, Unions
(Source: Unifor press release, January 13, 2023) VANCOUVER, B.C. — Unifor Local 101R has reached a tentative agreement with Canadian Pacific Railway (CP), covering 1,200 workers at 18 locations from British Columbia to Quebec. “These are hard working members who...
January 18, 2023 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Railway Age, January 17, 2023) Nearly a decade after the horrific derailment of a crude oil unit train at Lac-Mégantic, Quebec that claimed 47 lives and led to new regulations for railroad hazmat tank cars, Canada Minister of Transport Omar Alghabra on Jan....
January 5, 2023 | AAR Freight Trends, Canada, Headlines, Mexico, PSR
(Source: Railway Age, January 4, 2022) Total U.S. carload traffic for the first 12 months of 2022 was down 0.3% from the same period last year; and intermodal units were down 4.9%; the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Jan. 4. For the week ending Dec....
