Source: Brian Cross, Producer.com, February 7, 2019
Vancouver — The financial costs of Vancouver-area rail delays and freight embargoes in late 2018 will probably never be known, but the final tally likely won’t small, according to shippers that provided information to a Canada Transportation Agency investigation.
Grain exporters estimated the cost of service disruptions that took place at the Port of Vancouver between late October 2018 and early January 2019 at nearly $8 million.
Wade Sobkowich, executive director of the Western Grain Elevators Association, shared the figure with CTA investigators during two days of oral presentations in Vancouver last week.
