September was a record month for CN when it comes to grain movement in Western Canada.
CN's Vice President of Grain David Przednowek is pleased with the numbers considering they are still working out some of the kinks from the Grain Workers Strike at the Port of Vancouver.
"In spite of the grain workers strike that was on from the 24th to the 27th of September, and in spite of the fact that we didn't have the Port of Thunder Bay is now let effectively for the first 8 days of the month. As we worked on recovering from the bridge outage on the Fort Francis Sub, we still managed to hit a record. Grain movement on the CN grain shipments out of Western Canada's bulk grain and processed grain products, we ended up at 2.82 million metric tons."
He says in grain week 9 they ended up moving about 650,000 tonnes, whereas the previous three weeks they were over 700,000 tonnes.