Canada Expands Grain Transportation Monitoring

OTTAWA - Feb 3/14 - SNS -- Canada's federal government will expand the mandate of the Grain Monitoring Program in the hopes of getting a better idea of problems facing grain transportation and coming up with long term solutions.

The proposed expanded range of metrics and reporting frequency would include:

Railway order fulfillment information:

- weekly car orders placed by all grain companies;

- weekly car orders accepted (operating plan) by railways;

- weekly car orders actually placed by railways; and

- weekly cancellations of orders.

Weekly loads on wheels by carrier.

The covered hopper car fleet size in grain service for both mainline carriers by class of service (bad orders, etc.) on a weekly basis.

Terminal Unload Performance by railway (weekly unloads by port, along with expanded detail on arrival, constructive placement dwell, and unloading time at terminals).

Western Canada railway grain traffic (volumes, loaded transit times, cycle times) to Eastern Canada, United States and Mexican destinations.

U.S. grain traffic to Western Canadian destinations.

Western Canadian grain traffic shipped to port in containers.

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