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Does anyone know why Canadian intermodal is growth is flat this year?
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The two biggest reasons are: <br />1) as noted above, CP embargoed (banned) trailers from their RR. They have enough grain and coal traffic .... and they spent a bunch of $$ on containers, so they're feeling pretty randy and decided to put the screws to their trailer shippers. <br />2) CN put in place a reservation system that is so unworkable, that a good amount of their intermodal freight evaporated. I suspect if you look at volumes at terminals on the U.S. side, near Canadian cities, it increased significantly this year (i.e. more Vancouver freight ramping at Seattle, Toronto freight going to Buffalo, Montreal freight going to Syracuse.)
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