(Alice McFarlane/farmnewsNOW Staff)

By Alice McFarlane

Grain Movement

CP Rail hauls record amount of grain

Jun 7, 2019 | 4:40 PM

Canadian Pacific (CP) Railway moved 22.5 million metric tonnes of grain and grain products since the start of the 2018-2019 crop year.

CP Vice-President Sales and Marketing, Grain and Fertilizers Joan Hardy said this is a record pace.

“Since August of last year, we have moved approximately 500,000 metric tonnes more grain than ever before, bettering our record at this time back in the 2015-2016 crop year,” Hardy said in a news release. “We continue to innovate in close collaboration with our customers and supply chain enablers and we look forward to delivering for farmers and the North American economy as we close out this crop year and prepare for the next.”

CP moved 15 million metric tonnes to Vancouver through the end of May breaking the previous record set in the 2016-2017 crop year by five per cent. May was also a record month for grain products both from a carload and a volume perspective. April 2019 was an all-time record month for Canadian grain and grain products as CP moved a best-ever 2.643 million metric tonnes, bettering the past record from October 2018. In November of last year, the company broke its previous record for carloads of Western Canadian grain and grain products shipped to the Port of Vancouver in a single month, with 17,150.

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Hardy said CP now has over 1,000 new, high-capacity hopper cars in its fleet. By the end of the year more than 1,900 of the new hopper cars will be in service.

“By the spring of next year, 20 per cent of CP’s unit train elevator network will be loading the highly efficient 8,500-foot trains, which, coupled with the new hopper cars, can move up to 44 per cent more grain per train,” Hardy said.

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