CANADA's transport ministry will require railways to slow trains and take other steps to reduce the risk of fires caused by train sparks and dry vegetation, reports IHS Media.
This mean slower and fewer deliveries as trains share a single track to the Port of Vancouver in the wake of a wildfire that closed one of two tracks that run through British Columbia.
Vancouver, Canada's busiest port, said intermodal customers should expect delays of more than a week in getting containers off the port's marine terminals.
The delays come as Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) are routing traffic to and from Vancouver over a 100-mile portion of CP-owned track known as the Thompson subdivision that reopened to regular service July 5.
CN's Ashcroft subdivision track that connects to Vancouver remains out of service. Both railways run up to 60 trains daily over the two tracks.
Due to the backlog of containers waiting to get on the rails, "port terminals in Vancouver remain congested and are working at limited capacity," Hapag-Lloyd's advisory said. Neither CN nor CP was available for comment.
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