Borderlands: Canada

Two Canadian cities are taking an aggressive stance against illegal truck parking and storage in their communities.

Lawmakers in Canada are working to keep trucking companies with poor safety records off the roadways.

Canada has allocated $46 million in funding to recruit and train up to 2,600 new truck drivers and other transportation related jobs.

Rail shippers see Transport Canada’s amendments to collect more freight rail data as a good start, but they maintain that more can be done.

The railway said it moved 2.29 million metric tons of Canadian grain and grain products in January, setting a monthly record.

Annual volumes at the Nova Scotia port exceeded 600,000 twenty-foot equivalent units for the first time in its history.

Canadian government official introduces new legislation that represents the culmination of multiyear efforts to address port funding and railway safety needs.

Cargojet is better protected from an economic downturn than airlines handling general air cargo because of e-commerce and deep partnerships.

Unifor, Canada’s largest union, opposes a federal supply chain task force’s recommendation to curb workers’ ability to go on strike.

Canadian railway CN says it is positioning assets and adding more horsepower in order to keep the network fluid during extreme winter weather.