Churchill terminal closing

[farming101]

[URL="http://www.producer.com/2016/07/grain-to-stop-moving-through-churchill/"]http://www.producer.com/2016/07/grain-to-stop-moving-through-churchill/[/URL]

[parsley]

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/port-of-churchill-closes-30-people-given-layoff-notices-388198572.html

[farmaholic]

Why would Shippers want to ship through there? Its not "theirs".

[parsley]

What a difference a trainload of grain makes for farmers. For next year.

The Saudis' CWB seems alert enough.

Graincars are sent back down the railroad it was already hauled up on. No problem.

Farmers scratch their heads.

Mute Merv is yet unfound, but will most likely be heard joyously singing, "I once was lost but now am found." No problem.

The port is now financially screwed and the selling-price of the port will drop to a once in a blue-moon price.

Moon. Yes, well. The lunar-moon men noticed.

Think Saudis will partner with taxpayer-funded Northern natives to buy the port? No protests. Trudeau will be presented with new moccasins

Farmers will keep combining.

Will Saudis also buy an additional interest in the CWB? wlWith Ritz' 2016 neverending blessings?

Will Saudis also buy the railroad from Winnipeg to Churchill? And high-five?

Will Saudis build more mosques in the North; aka theological training centres? Complete with electronic equipment?

Will Trudeau train northerners to train Northerners to be Customs agents?

Will streams of entrants begin to arrive through Churchill and the 'ports arrival' stats rise?

After Canadian farmers are presented with a plaque by the CWB for being business-minded, they buy more fertilizer.

The northern port of Churchill will become renowned as the leading strategic military and intelligence port in the world. Just not for Canadians.

Will our Western politicians get national awards for their conversational French lessons, whilst Northern politicians get national awards for conversational Arabic lessons, both yearly, in Churchill Manitoba?

Port. Say the word and remember it.

[MBgrower]

The russians or chinese should buy and send fertilezer back to the prairies. Build a few collection sites on the praires and distribute from those points.

[rockpile]

Durka, Durka!

[BreadWinner]

Im afraid I will be one of last farmers to tour this great giant in the north. Last fall I was there as the last vessel pulled away. Without a company in western Canada with a stake in the port it will never ship another bushel. It is 1920s technology every chute and distributor has a rope and a man attached. It takes 70 guys to run this big old tank. The only reason it ran the past ten years is because it was heavily subsidized and not because it was needed. Dont worry Im sure the CWB big wigs even got a bonus for every bushel that went out the Hudsons Bay. all the big grain corps just finished expanding their ports so why would they ship north. With Ocean freights at all time lows the savings of shipping north would not be noticable.

[parsley]

Unless oil and grain were a team.

[stonepicker]

Poor track, poor location, poor facility. It was never feasible, too bad.

[tweety]

Its pretty obvious what happens to a business when interim payments that should have gone to farmers no longer fund it.

[blackpowder]

A logical event foretold years ago.

[bucket]

....the Saudis will get a piece of this for pennies on the dollar.


And Canada will spend billions expensing bullets fighting the Saudis war.

Saudis are getting a hell of a deal.....assets in Canada while we expense the war we can't afford.

Can't get that money back but Canada could spend some money on infrastructure assets.

And here I thought omnitrax was suppose to be doing the upkeep on the rail. Guess that went to the shareholders.