March 4, 2020 | CN, Headlines
(Source: Reuters, March 3, 2020) MONTREAL — Canadian National Railway Co. lost capacity equivalent to 10,000 carloads, or 1 million tons of grain exports, in February due to rail blockades by protesters opposed to a pipeline project, Chief Executive Jean-Jacques Ruest...
March 3, 2020 | CN, Headlines
(Source: CN press release, March 3, 2020) MONTREAL — CN announced today that, in the absence of significant illegal blockades on its network over the last four days, it has started calling back most of the temporarily laid off employees based in Eastern Canada. Over...
March 2, 2020 | Canada, CN, Headlines
(Source: Reuters, February 28, 2020) MONTREAL — Canadian National Railway Co has started calling back many of the 450 workers it laid off earlier this month in eastern Canada, when blockades crippled operations on strategic rail lines, according to a company email...
March 2, 2020 | CN, Headlines
(Source: Freight Waves, March 1, 2020) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Mergers and acquisitions could happen among the Class I railroads within the next decade if regulatory and economic factors drive railroads to see mergers as a path to greater efficiency and expanded...
February 28, 2020 | CN, CP, Headlines
(Source: Canadian Press, February 27, 2020) OTTAWA — RCMP began enforcing an injunction earlier this month that prevents interference with construction of a $6.6-billion natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia. Click the link below for a timeline of the...
February 28, 2020 | Canada, CN, Headlines
(Source: Trains Magazine, February 27, 2020) Transport Minister Marc Garneau says Canada’s freight rail system faces “many, many weeks” of delays as a result of protests by and in support of indigenous groups across the country. As of this morning, just one of the...
February 27, 2020 | CN, Headlines
(Source: Belleville Intelligencer, February 26, 2020) BELLEVILLE, Ontario — The takedown of a Tyendinaga Mohawk blockade on CN Railway tracks at a level crossing east Belleville on Monday hasn’t ended disruptions in the area for rail officials trying to reopen the...
February 27, 2020 | CN, CP, Headlines
(Source: Global News, February 27, 2020) OTTAWA — Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs said Wednesday that a potential meeting with the Indigenous services minister this Thursday is not going to happen, despite an earlier signal that they would be open to the meeting. The...
February 27, 2020 | CN, CP, Headlines
(Source: Freight Waves, February 26, 2020) TORONTO — Although police have cleared a two-week protest blocking a segment of Canadian National’s rail line near Belleville, Ontario, it’s still unknown when operations along Canada’s rail supply chain will return to...
February 26, 2020 | CN, CP, Headlines
(Source: Freight Waves, February 25, 2020) TORONTO — Something strange happened over the weekend to Transport DSquare in Montreal. The intermodal carrier got notice that rail containers from Western Canada — tied up indefinitely from weeks of protest blockades...
