(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 disrupting Canadian National’s network — were en route. The explanation could lie in a report from the CBC today that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government brokered a deal to let CN use rival Canadian Pacific’s network to route some freight around protest blockades — including via the U.S. The CBC said the arrangement allowed for deliveries of essential goods, including propane, to communities otherwise cut off by the blockades.
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