Canada
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News
Forager releases instant cross-border contract pricing
Forager’s SCOUT platform helps shippers manage the volatility of cross-border freight imbalances.
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News
Canadian railways expect steady grain carload volumes in 2020-2021
Canadian Pacific’s and CN’s estimates of grain they expect to haul in 2020-2021 is in line with past projections.
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Rail
Canadian Pacific says mid-50s operating ratio within reach
Despite a 12% drawdown in volumes, CP reached a record second-quarter operating ratio of 57%.
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Company earnings
Canadian Pacific’s second-quarter net profit falls 12%
The COVID-19 pandemic dampened second-quarter revenue by 9%.
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Company earnings
CN eyes intermodal opportunities to boost 2H 2020
The expectation that North American consumers will help drive intermodal traffic comes as the railway’s second-quarter volumes were hit by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Blockchain
Walmart Canada adds DCs, supply chain tech in C$3.5B push
Walmart Canada plans to build two new distribution centers and upgrade its supply chain technology as it spends C$3.5 billion to grow operations.
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Canada
Canada wage subsidy could reach more trucking companies
Federal government seeks to widen eligibility for Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy under a program welcomed by the country’s largest trucking organization.
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Canada
Feds still probing $20 million marijuana shipment after trucker’s release
After prosecutors drop charges against trucker Prabjot Nagra, U.S. authorities continue to investigate how a truck wound up with $20 million worth of marijuana in…
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Rail
CN announces capital plans for Saskatchewan, Manitoba and New Brunswick
The C$230 million it will spend on the three provinces are on top of C$1.3 billion previously announced for five other provinces.
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Canada
COVID-19 testing coming to a truck stop in Canada
Truckers will have easier access to COVID-19 tests under a new program by the Ontario government that brings free coronavirus screenings to a truck stop,…
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