CN buys Iowa Northern Railway
NewsIn a move to further improve its intermodal rail services across North America, Canada’s CN transportation group is to buy Waterloo (Iowa)...
Rail disruption hits Halifax
NewsRail service has been suspended after a washout on the rail line that connects to the Port of Halifax....
Canadian Pacific emerges as preferred bidder for KCS
NewsKansas City Southern (KCS) has switched back to the merger deal offered by Canadian Pacific (CP)....
CN Rail’s big spend
NewsMore light was shed on the investment plans of Canadian National Rail (CN) this month when it announced a C$315M injection into its rail net...
CN Rail’s big spend
NewsMore light was shed on the investment plans of Canadian National Rail (CN) this month when it announced a C$315M injection into its rail net...
Canadian lift truck order
NewsAccording to unconfirmed market rumours, Canadian National (CN) has ordered as many as 54 reach stackers, not including options, for deliver...
CN revives Milton
NewsCN has dusted off its plan for a new intermodal terminal in Milton, a town of 50,000 people, 30 miles west of Toronto, Ontario, and resident...
Outlook fair for Fairview?
NewsAlso officially opened this month was the Fairview Container Terminal at the Port of Prince Rupert, in the northern part of Canada’s Briti...
NAWC congestion could well get worse
NewsMost North American West Coast (NAWC) container ports broke traffic records in 2004 and remain under sustained pressure. Congestion is expec...
Biometric terminal operation
NewsCN's intermodal terminal in Edmonton, Alberta, has adopted biometric technology that allows truck drivers to access the yard using their fin...
Signs of wagon life?
NewsThe general slowdown in the world economy made itself felt in the freight wagon building industry, but there is German interest in a new mul...
Rail merger off
NewsBNSF and CN called off their controversial merger plans last month, just after the appeals court upheld the 15-month moratorium on rail merg...