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The Ag Transportation Coalition Week 5 Rail performance

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  • TOM4CWB
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2000
    • 16511

    The Ag Transportation Coalition Week 5 Rail performance

    Key figures from Grain Week 5:

    CN and CP supplied 6,436 (89%) of the 7,189 hopper cars ordered for delivery in Grain Week 5 resulting in 751 hopper car orders remaining outstanding.
    CN supplied 93 % of the hopper cars that were ordered for Grain Week 5.
    CP supplied 87 % of the hopper cars that were ordered for Grain Week 5.
    Boxcar shippers received 54% of orders.
    CN supplied 89% of orders in non-bulk corridors including the USA/Mexico.
    CP supplied 59% of orders in non-bulk corridors including the USA/Mexico
    Grain Year to Date

    89% of hopper car orders have been delivered by CN and CP for the want week.
    7% of hopper car orders have arrived 1 week late.
    4% of hopper car orders are outstanding.
    623 cars supplied by railways have been rejected by shippers as unsuitable for loading due to mechanical or sanitary reasons.
    Past weekly reports can be found on the Ag Transport Coalition website: www.agtransportcoalition.com



    * The Ag Transportation Coalition is comprised of the Canadian Canola Growers Association (CCGA), the Alberta Wheat Commission (AWC), Pulse Canada, the Manitoba Pulse Growers Association (MPGA), The Western Grain Elevator Association (WGEA), the Canadian Oilseed Processors Association (COPA), the Inland Terminal Association of Canada (ITAC) and the Canadian Special Crops Association (CSCA).
  • bucket
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2008
    • 17024

    #2
    623 cars rejected is about 63000 tonnes or a boat that didn't get loaded.

    11 percent not delivered is still a few points not getting any cars.

    G3 has requirements for 4 - 134 car spots coming up in the near future every week.

    Couple with the 6 trains KS potash will want moved it doesn't seem the railways are moving to increase capacity that would help their bottom line.

    Instead cp lays people off and parks equipment.

    Must be nice to imply to your customers you don't have to try because they are the only game in town.

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    • tweety
      Senior Member
      • Nov 2014
      • 3059

      #3
      How many hopper cars can be delivered and shipped in a month? Is the grain industry ordering more cars then rail capacity? They can ask for 20,000 cars, but that isn't realistic either.

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      • farmaholic
        Senior Member
        • Sep 2010
        • 17478

        #4
        It may have turned into "I going to ask for more than I need because I won't get them anyway" scenario.

        Look out if they all show up though.

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        • bucket
          Senior Member
          • Jan 2008
          • 17024

          #5
          With this crop there should be no point waiting for cars, If the railways performed as well as they said in 2013.

          Every elevator, with the delays and spread out harvest, should be looking to buy grain. Their booked or contracted grain is lower than usual and the trains should be showing up.

          This is such a massive exercise in collusion between the railways and graincos you would have to be blind not to see it.

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          • bucket
            Senior Member
            • Jan 2008
            • 17024

            #6
            With this crop there should be no point waiting for cars, If the railways performed as well as they said in 2013.

            Every elevator, with the delays and spread out harvest, should be looking to buy grain. Their booked or contracted grain is lower than usual and the trains should be showing up.

            This is such a massive exercise in collusion between the railways and graincos you would have to be blind not to see it.

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            • TOM4CWB
              Senior Member
              • Dec 2000
              • 16511

              #7
              Bucket;

              Your BRAIN ...is massive exercise in collusion..."you would have to be blind not to see it" ... [that being collusion] "between the railways and graincos"...

              Canada being a reliable supplier is in the interests of everyone in the grain handling system. The performance is reasonable. The rejected cars are cleaned/fixed and then filled.

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              • riders2010
                Senior Member
                • Aug 2010
                • 2205

                #8
                Why did you go ona hunger strike?

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                • riders2010
                  Senior Member
                  • Aug 2010
                  • 2205

                  #9
                  Lord please forgive tom for his mean spirited ways in personally attacking bucket. Show him the path of wisdom and memory so as he remembers the hunger strike and that he should be on a hunger strike for all farmers not just his own farm. Amen. Let us pray in peace for tom.

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                  • bucket
                    Senior Member
                    • Jan 2008
                    • 17024

                    #10
                    Riders


                    Hahahahahaha.


                    Cheers man.

                    Serenity now. Lol

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