Grain Transport Backlog, APAS presentation to House of Commons

[malleefarmer]

Common charge here for delayed delivery into domestic market and container market is $2.50 per month per tonne for cereals.

Sometimes its in the contract sometimes not but buyers do it regardless kind of a unwritten law/contract handshake agreement.

5 days late tough cookies full month is paid

[farming101]

It isn't the grain company that tells RR where to spot cars only how many are available for the week. If they don't want your grain that isn't RR fault.

Please rephrase or clarify

[wmoebis]

Please rephrase or clarify

Sorry! The RR tell each grain Co's how many cars are available for shipment each week, the grain Co's tell at which elev they want them spotted. The grain company loads them with what they want the RR don't tell them what to load. Changing what they load is the grain companies call not the RR.

What diff would the army make? If there is 2000 or 5000 cars available in a given week the grain companies would still tell them where to spot them and would still put what they want into them.

[farming101]

I'm not sure about that because the Ag Transport Coalition said for Week 32 that there were only 53% of the cars supplied that were ordered. But at the same time there were 125 cars that were supplied early.