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Canadian Shipper
For Serge Carestia and his team at Home Depot Canada it's all about the flow; not a great head of hair — stock and flow, the supply chain model implemented by the company under the guidance of its vice president, supply chain, and the 2018 recipient of the Freight Management Association of Canada's Supply Chain Executive of the Year award.
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Freight Waves
Backups and congestion on land and along the nation’s waterfronts due to a lack of customs clearance personnel could be where carriers and shippers see the most immediate effect of a long-term federal government shutdown.
The prospects of avoiding such a scenario did not improve at the close of business today on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers returned to work for the first time since Saturday but with no votes scheduled on the appropriations bill to re-install funding.
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Canadian Shipper
Canadian grocers doubled down on transforming themselves into destinations for time-strapped shoppers this year, ramping up delivery options, acquiring meal kit companies and adding in-store eateries.
Shifting consumer demands and tech titan Amazon's recent acquisition of Whole Foods Market are pressuring grocers to evolve, yet experts say it's only the beginning of a transformation in how Canadians shop for food.
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Canadian Shipper
Four trade associations representing the international liner shipping industry submitted comments to the European Commission supporting extension of the EU consortia block exemption regulation for an additional five years beyond its current 2020 expiration date.
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Inside Logistics
The Canadian Pacific (CP) Holiday Train has completed its 20th journey and has given communities across North America reason to celebrate in support of the important work of local food banks. While final numbers are still being calculated, the program is on track to raise more than C$1.3 million and collect over 200,000 pounds of food for local food banks and food shelves.
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Canadian Shipper
Transport Minister Marc Garneau has ordered rail companies to update rules to address employee fatigue.
Requirements on work-rest periods for rail workers, introduced in 2002 with only minor revisions since then, should reflect the latest science and fatigue management practices, Garneau said.
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Progressive Railroading
CN and Canadian Pacific exceeded their maximum grain revenue entitlements for crop-year 2017-18, the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) ruled recently.
CN's grain revenue of CA$788,062,078 was CA$1,047,285 above its entitlement of CA$787,014,793, while CP's grain revenue of CA$709,499,416 was CA$1,500,513 above its entitlement of CA$707,998,903.
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Canadian Shipper
CN announced it has met all Dec. 31, 2018 milestones in its positive train control (PTC) implementation plan and applied on November 7 for a two-year extension to complete deployment and interoperability.
Mandated by the U.S. Congress to be installed on certain mainline tracks, PTC is a system designed to prevent train-to-train collisions, derailments caused by excessive speed, and certain unauthorized train movements on a given track segment.
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CN
CN and United Steelworkers announced recently that a new tentative collective agreement has been reached between USW Local 2004 and CN. USW represents approximately 3,000 track and bridge personnel who work at CN across Canada.
"We are pleased to conclude yet another negotiation," said JJ Ruest, president and chief executive officer of CN.
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Progressive Railroading
Canadian Pacific and Unifor have ratified a new four-year agreement, the Class I announced recently.
The current collective agreement was set to expire Dec. 31. Unifor represents about 1,200 of CP's mechanical employees, who are responsible for maintaining rail cars and locomotives.
"Ratifying this agreement, especially in time for the New Year, is a positive step for our mechanical employees, our 13,000-strong CP family, customers and the broader economy," said CP President and Chief Executive Officer Keith Creel in a press release.
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Progressive Railroading
Coal, petroleum and chemical carload gains helped boost U.S. railroads' traffic totals for the week ending Dec. 22, according to Association of American Railroads (AAR) data.
U.S. railroads reported total Week 51 traffic volume rose 4.2 percent to 567,252 carloads and intermodal units compared with the same week in 2017. Carloads for the week increased 3.1 percent to 277,111 units, while intermodal volume climbed 5.3 percent to 290,141 units.
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Canadian Shipper
Canada's long-awaited electronic logging device (ELD) mandate should differ from the U.S. rule to avoid some of the pitfalls that befell the rollout of similar legislation there.
That was the opinion of a panel that discussed the issue at the recent Surface Transportation Summit. Steven Laskowski, head of the Ontario Trucking Association and Canadian Trucking Alliance, pointed out one deficiency in the U.S. rules — the fact vendors can self-certify their own devices.
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Biometric Update
Peace Bridge Authorities and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are launching a joint pilot program in Fort Erie, Ontario to screen commercial vehicles crossing the border with facial recognition, in a bid to reduce congestion at the busy crossing, The Buffalo News reports.
Trucks are the primary cause of traffic delays on the bridge, according to the Buffalo News, and officials hope that the program, which could lead to full deployment for trucker identification by mid-2019, will reduce congestion on the bridge by half.
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Air Cargo Week
Following growth of almost 10 percent in 2017, airfreight demand slowed in 2018 but still increased by 4.5 percent, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) reports.
Scheduled freight traffic measured in freight tonne kilometres grew by 4.5 percent compared to 9.5 percent in 2017.
Airfreight had picked-up sharply during the inventory restocking in 2017, before moderating in 2018 as demand drivers softened, which was impacted by the trade tension and declining import and export orders.
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Canadian Shipper
In line with the global trend of implementing autonomous vehicles in cargo operations, Sweden-based behavioral technology company Semcon announced that, in partnership with Swedish tractor manufacturer Lundberg Hymas, it will be developing new autonomous vehicles for the Swedish Civil Aviation Administration.
For the project, Semcon will develop the technology for the vehicle, and Lundberg Hymas will contribute its manufactured tractors.
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Air Cargo Week
Lufthansa Cargo has become the first airline to make an application available for digital creation of transport documents required for dangerous goods.
The DGD.online service supports shippers and can be used for shipments sent via air, road and sea.
The developers, using input from pilot customers, focused on achieving a user-friendly application with validation and convenience features designed to add value.
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Canadian Shipper
The Virginiaborg became the first ocean-going vessel to reach the Port of Montreal without a stopover in 2019, by crossing the downstream limits of the Port at Sorel on January 2, 2019, at 3:50 a.m.
The Virginiaborg under the command of Captain Volodymyr Yurchenko, is a bulk carrier operated by Wagenborg Shipping and represented in Montreal by the Lower St-Lawrence Ocean Agencies Ltd. The Virginiaborg left the Port of Porsgrunn, Norway, on December 20, 2018.
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Montreal Gazette
The Port of Montreal has begun the new year faced with the threat of a strike.
The stevedores' union of the Port of Montreal announced it possesses a mandate to exercise pressure tactics up to and including a strike.
Members voted 99.49 in favour of giving their union a mandate to call a strike, a result union spokesman Michel Murray said is hardly surprising given working conditions he called "oppressive."
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Canadian Shipper
What a difference a year can make. This has been an interesting year for the ocean shipping industry. Ocean carriers were mostly profitable at the end of 2017, but that trend eroded quickly in the first half of 2018. And, with fewer carriers now in business — a result of past consolidations — carriers are finally focusing first on profitability instead of on ensuring vessels are full.
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