Why ignoring calls for expanded rail interswitching is good for our supply chains

Introducing more switching into the network will slow rail operations, and introduce delays and points of failure that will reverberate throughout the integrated network.

For railways, the biggest problem is that switches require cargo to be handed off multiple times, significantly slowing the movement of goods, writes Mary-Jane Bennett.Jason Corbett photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY MARY-JANE BENNETT

March 15, 2023

Five months ago, the Supply Chain Task Force issued a dire warning and a series of recommendations that were supposed to get Canada’s supply chains moving efficiently again. The pandemic, fires and flooding in British Columbia., the war in Ukraine, and numerous echo-impact...

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