Grain shippers hopeful promised policy remedies will come to fruition in the spring

The promise of inserting reciprocal penalties into service-level agreements is hailed by one advocate as 'very important,' as it will introduce 'commercial-like' contracts between shippers and railways.

An advocacy group for grain shippers hopes that the Liberal government makes good on a promise to introduce a bill this spring that would include several welcome policy remedies to improve rail service. Photograph courtesy of Ryan Cheney

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BY MARCO VIGLIOTTI

February 13, 2017

Advocates are expressing optimism that promised new legislation from the federal government this spring will bring needed improvements to rail service for grain shippers after a crippling backlog in 2014 stalled shipments across the Prairies. Wade Sobkowich, executive director of the Western Grain ...

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