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    Week 18 Railway report

    The Ag Transport Coalition Grain Week 18 railway performance measurement report is attached. The report covers 90% of grain movement originating in Western Canada.



    The weekly report details railway performance for the current grain year across a range of key indicators including rail car demand, railway car supply, timeliness of railway car supply in response to weekly customer orders, unfulfilled shipper demand, corridor performance, railway dwell times at origin and railway dwell times at destination.



    Key figures from Grain Week 18:

    CN and CP supplied 7,766 (85%) of the 9,159 hopper cars ordered for delivery in Grain Week 18 resulting in 1,393 hopper car orders remaining outstanding.
    Timeliness of car supply: CN supplied 91% and CP 78% of the hopper cars that were ordered for Grain Week 18.
    Non-bulk, USA/Mexico, Canadian domestic performance: CN supplied 100% and CP 67% of the hopper cars ordered for Grain Week 18.
    Thunder Bay performance: CN supplied 87% and CP 64% of the hopper cars ordered for Grain Week 18.
    1,037 (13%) of the cars ordered for Grain Week 18 were supplied early (the prior week).
    Grain Year to Date

    88% of hopper car orders have been delivered by CN and CP for the want week.
    8% of hopper car orders have arrived 1 week late.
    1% of hopper car orders arrived 2 weeks late.
    3% of hopper car orders are outstanding.
    2425 cars supplied by railways have been rejected by shippers as unsuitable for loading due to mechanical or sanitary reasons.
    Past weekly reports can be found on the Ag Transport Coalition website: www.agtransportcoalition.com



    * The Ag Transportation Coalition is comprised of the Canadian Canola Growers Association (CCGA), the Alberta Wheat Commission (AWC), Pulse Canada, the Manitoba Pulse Growers Association (MPGA), The Western Grain Elevator Association (WGEA), the Canadian Oilseed Processors Association (COPA), the Inland Terminal Association of Canada (ITAC) and the Canadian Special Crops Association (CSCA).

    #2
    Pretty nice weather .... they should be doing a bit better than the report implies.

    But you got to admire them for keeping their lazy asses that way to eventually convince trudeau to give them commercial rates.

    Baltic dry index is next to nothing. It costs more to get grain to vancouver than vancouver to China.

    The Chinese would be wise to build top notch storage to take advantage of it.

    Rail rates should be linked to the Baltic dry index. Not sure how ocean rates can tumble but rail rates are indexed and rubber stamped higher every year.

    Steel prices are down. Fuel costs are down. Labour is steady. Grain freight rates increase using 40 year old rail cars.

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      #3
      How do we find out what % has come out of short hauls and what is left in the middle of Sask?

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        #4
        Is any one grain company behind more than others?
        Do grain elevators still get car penalty for shipping wrong grade?

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          #5
          Wmoebis

          How can a grainco ship the wrong grade?

          They load 100 cars that has been sampled at every 1000 bushels on average on in bound grain that farmers deliver.

          Daylate

          You are right there is no accounting for where the grain is pulled from.

          The report just says they hit their targets. But that no different locally. Graincos pull the closest grain in.

          Sometimes by slowing down a smaller point they can direct grain to where they want it.

          It's still essentially a quota system. But it's based on phantom excuses.

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            #6
            Daylate, some of the info you are asking about is available in data tables on Quorum's site.
            Northwest Sask the winner for the first quarter of the crop year.
            How much is left? Does anybody have the answer to that? Doubt it.

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