long haul interswitching

Canadian grain shippers hopeful about rail service in current crop year

Canadian grain producers generally expect rail service in the 2023-2024 harvest year to meet market needs, but they’re keeping an eye on other factors that could affect rail service in the coming years, such as grain export capacity at the Port of Vancouver.

Grain shippers are also waiting for the supply chain to completely recover from a July labor strike at the ports of Vancouver and Prince Rupert.

“It’s always the same story this time of year when it comes to rail service and rail capacity. We...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/canadian-grain-shippers-hopeful-about-rail-service-in-current-crop-year

Canadian rail shippers praise feds’ actions to collect more freight data

While the Canadian government has made inroads regarding the collection of additional freight rail data metrics and the preservation of interswitching, Transport Canada could go a few steps further in regulating better service in Canada, rail shippers told FreightWaves.

How Canada addresses rail service and data collection metrics can be significant for both American and Canadian shippers and the railways themselves because operations can often cross borders. From a safety perspective, both...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/canadian-rail-shippers-praise-feds-actions-to-collect-more-freight-data

Canadian forest products shippers want feds to collect freight rail data

A Canadian shippers group supports the federal government’s plan requiring freight railroads to provide service data as a way to improve visibility into supply chain flows.

The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) says the data could help improve efficiency along the supply chain by highlighting which areas are prone to bottlenecks and might need additional investment from the government through Canada’s National Trade Corridors Fund.

“As an industry, we understand that congestion and...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/canadian-forest-products-shippers-want-feds-to-collect-freight-rail-data

Transport Canada wants freight rail data rules 

A grain train weaves through a Canadian evergreen forest. A snow-capped mountain range is in the background.

Transport Canada is proposing a regulation that would make changes to collection of freight rail traffic and service data permanent.

The Canadian agency says the reporting requirements would provide rail users and the public with more relevant and precise information relating to rail service and performance. 

The proposed permanent regulation seeks to adjust waybill reporting requirements to ensure that the data meets its primary purpose of supporting long-haul interswitching (LHI), Transport...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/transport-canada-wants-freight-rail-data-rules