December 11, 2009 | Canada, CN, Headlines
(Reuters circulated the following on December 10, 2009.) OTTAWA — Canadian National Railway Co (CNR.TO) and the locomotive engineers’ union said on Thursday they remain in talks with federal mediators and will negotiate beyond today’s self-imposed deadline...
December 10, 2009 | CN, Headlines
(CN issued the following on December 9, 2009.) CHICAGO — CN announced today it has reached a voluntary mitigation agreement (VMA) with the Village of Plainfield, Ill., located 35 miles southwest of Chicago, addressing the municipality’s environmental issues with CN’s...
December 9, 2009 | CN, Headlines
(The Canadian Press circulated the following on December 7, 2009.) SPY HILL, Sask. — Several tank cars continued to burn Monday at a site in southeastern Saskatchewan where a CN freight train derailed two days earlier. A three-kilometre evacuation zone remained in...
December 4, 2009 | CN, Headlines
(The following story by John D. Boyd appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on December 3, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Canadian National Railway was ramping its operations back up Dec. 3 following a five-day strike by locomotive engineers, but it was not clear how...
December 3, 2009 | Canada, CN, Headlines
(Reuters circulated the following on December 2, 2009.) CHICAGO — U.S. wheat traders shrugged off news of a railroad strike in Canada, a major wheat producer and exporter, as any supply disruption was expected to be short lived and unlikely to shift demand to the...
December 3, 2009 | CN, Headlines
(The following story by Brent Jang appeared on the Globe and Mail website on December 3, 2009.) TORONTO — Canadian National Railway Co., which is striving to bounce back from a five-day strike, faces a lengthy recovery period before freight shipments stage a sustained...
December 3, 2009 | CN, Headlines
(Bloomberg News circulated the following on December 3, 2009.) MONTREAL — Canadian National Railway Co. said a strike by locomotive engineers is over following an agreement to continue negotiations and, if necessary, submit to binding arbitration. “CN is pleased that...
December 2, 2009 | CN, Headlines
(The following story by John D. appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on December 1, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Port of Prince Rupert on British Columbia’s remote northern coast, although tied to the U.S. Midwest by one ribbon of Canadian National Railways...
December 2, 2009 | CN, Headlines
(The following story by John D. appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on December 1, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Although ships are keeping their schedules at the Port of Halifax, N.S., the strike by locomotive engineers against Canadian National Railway is...
December 2, 2009 | CN, Headlines
(The following story by John D. Boyd appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on December 1, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Canadian National Railway is asking customers to help it line up their freight for easier train pickup by taking steps to curb railcar switching...
