Ships waiting

[tstep]

28 boats waiting at the west coast and the ****ing railroads say they are doing a good job. And ritz and his blowjob buddies don't give a ****. They're concerned about the next election. Harper is at the SARM convention and should have a new asshole ripped because of what they have done

[binthere]

the grain is moving. the grain cos have to take the bulk of the blame. ships pulling in being partially filled and then sent out to wait instead of moving on to competing terminal. ritz admitted they screwed up so they will study it. whats to study? without collaberitive pooling of grain the logistics are just not there. the monopoly had to go but we were blind sided to think we could go one on one.

[freewheat]

bin there. What about the other crops that are not moving? The non cwb crops?

[bucket]

Freewheat.

They care even less.

All ritz had to do is ask the graincos if they are ready to handle the logistics efficiently.

And make sure he held them to it.

There are no words.

[fjlip]

Harper may not even take questions...security will be HD. Listen to the news.

[bucket]

I don't think harper ignoring farm leaders would bode well for him.

300 or more municipal leaders that know first hand the logistic issues and harper going to snub them?

These are the best voices to help or hinder your election outcome?

Why ignore them.

[wmoebis]

28 ships waiting! How/can we find out if all the right commodities are in place in the right order for timely loading? Product/grade etc in port, on rail, in elevators, purchased an waiting for delivery?

I would think this info and making sure it is would be part of making sure that they are a dependable commodity for market. Even tho the CWB isn't here to look after the wheat and barley end of it now there should be a watch dog.

[furrowtickler]

This shows it is a system wide problem not just rail co's.
By the looks of it the ports and line companies would have a tough time organizing a kindergarten book shelf.....

[binthere]

the price difference from port to farms indicates that the grain cos are well organised to the point of collusion i would say.

[blackpowder]

I'm hurting here as well but.
What the hell is it we want!
We have the lowest amount of commercial storage for any nation that exports. Coupled with the longest distance to port.
We piss in our politicians' ear till they chuck out a short term band aid to buy votes until next time. Often those band aids screw something else up as much as they help anything. Case in point tonnage penalties.
We had to have such a frickin civil war just to get rid of the _ _ _. Meanwhile they tear up branch lines park engines and put no energy to forward business strategies that might get them on the radar of some myopic bootlicking government and its screw around short term diddling. Every damn govt. we've had for a long time is guilty.
I'd say to a certain degree we've got what we friggin deserve. Vote for anyone you want and tell me it'll be different.
Get our shit together, get the tobacco out of our mouths and go to them with some proposals that sound like they came from a united industry willing to agree and commit to a course of action.
Every time I go to a meeting and hear some sonofagun blame "they" for doing/not doing, too much for themselves or not enough for him, I hit him between the eyes with logic until he turns around and fricks off.
Absolutely embarrassing to be at a table with foreign industry players and listen to some Festus whine and blame.
I might be the most backward ass on here but angryville is as much a symptom of the 70 year syndrome as ships waiting.

[tstep]

How many years under the CWB was there more than 15 ships waiting at the coast and the last 3 years of this free market shit show we've had 3 years of ships waiting. What has that cost producers of western Canada. Another thing to is that there are millers in the world that have stop buy grain from Canada because we are now classified as an unreliable source. Because of grain co, RR, Govt. who ever u want to blame for this cluster ****.

[bucket]

Under the previous pools wasn't the terminals at port built with farmers money. Now we have to build more because no one was looking at yield increases and the impact to logistics prairie to port.

[BreadWinner]

As far as I'm concerned this rail cap is killing us. The railroads are only moving the minimum amount of grain and it is not priority. Say we increased the amount railways get paid working on a reward system based on performance instead of penalties. Then the elevators would stop taking advantage of the backlogged system and would have to compete for our product. That is what we need is more companies bidding for our grain. The railways would also be competing between the two of them for more market share. To be honest if we don't start competing against the crude and bulk freight we will be hauling our own grain to the coast.

[BreadWinner]

Basically the railways are on strike against the farmer, can't we work with these companies instead of fighting them. The free market is not working with bottlenecks.

[BreadWinner]

CP’s export grain revenue for the 2013-14 crop year was $623-million, $1.6-million below its cap. Canadian grain is the largest line of business for CP, which recorded a record $6.6-billion in revenue in 2014.

Rival CN’s $672-million in revenue from western grain exceeded its cap by almost $5-million, an amount it was told to relinquish in addition to a five-per-cent penalty of $250,000. (The money goes to the Western Grains Research Foundation.)

Claude Mongeau, CN’s chief executive officer, told the Globe and Mail last year the revenue rule discouraged spending on its grain operations.