Quit complaining about transportation

[sumdumguy]

Seems Tom is meditating at the moment.

[Hamloc]

Bucket, Hermanson released his report in 1997 when the Liberals were in power, how did they respond? Did they do anything? Not that I can remember, yet you blame Harper.

One problem I see, is that the terminals at the coast aren't big enough to fill a ship in one stop very inefficient.

[riders2010]

Tom s still dealing with the mental stress of having Princess catch him getting a ***** every time he goes by that flaming naked girl.

Oh lord forgive me and pray for tom during this troubling time for him. Bless you tom. Lord have mercy.

[sumdumguy]

Or else he is waiting for a call from Harper's office to tell him what he can say. Maybe a gag order. Its no pun being a yes-man.

[riders2010]

How could any farmer defend a minister of ag that says transportation problems don't cost money for farmers. Bizarre.

[bucket]

Hamloc

The problems were identified.

The liberals didn't do SFA either but after voting conservative and them getting a majority I expected them to do something in 8 years.

Nothing.

They couldn't even enforce fines properly. FFS.

[dmlfarmer]

Hamloc: There is about 1.2 million tonnes of storage in the 6 major terminals on the west coast; or an average of 200,000 tonnes per facility. Panamax bulk carriers handle 60-80 thousand tonnes. There is plenty of grain in a terminal to fill a ship. However, there is no longer any coordination of grain movement into or out of the terminals to match ships coming in. The cons overlooked the fact the CWB was managing grain movement and shipping and did nothing when they ended the single desk and have done nothing since to coordinate grain movement. That is the cause of the inefficiency!

[MBgrower]

Hey tom, how about dropping those idiotic inserted video clips. Makes a mess try to view this site on a phone.

[Hamloc]

Dml canola was never under the CWB so I assume the shipping of it was never coordinated by the CWtB. I also believe that all companies handled CWB grain therefore wheat of various grades would have been spread throughout the terminals. I would guess that a ship could then access wheat of similar grade from more than one terminal and be filled in one pass which is more efficient than today. I would think the grain companies will eventually figure it out unfortunately we pay for the delays now. Canola doesn't face the same issues because there are fewer grades.

[farmaholic]

There probably aren't as many grades of wheat as you think in the west coast terminals either. Probably only 1&2 13.5 cwrs and maybe the odd boatload of feed.