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Western Ports
Port of Vancouver
Total train volume westbound to the Port of Vancouver increased 14.1% in September compared to August. The biggest gain came from Grain trains, which jumped 65.2% from 46 trains in August to 76 trains in September. This growth coincides with the beginning of the Canadian grain harvest. We expect the volume of grain trains to remain high for the coming months, and we will publish a separate report on volumes of grain during the grain harvest.
We did not see a significant amount of “catch-up” volume after the dockworkers strike in July, and some commodities are remain lower, for example potash shipments for August and September were below the January to June average.
The total carload traffic into the Port of Vancouver was evenly divided between CN and CPKC, with CPKC moving just over 1500 carloads more than CN in September.