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PORT Metro Vancouver is delaying any possible legal action against Canadian National Railway until it receives a promised report about the number of containers CN will require to resume rail freight service to three of its container terminals.
Legal action is said to have been one of a number of possible actions the British Columbia port was considering to take, after CN replaced its rail service with truck service on July 13 between CN's Vancouver Intermodal Terminal and the port terminals of Centerm and Vanterm and Fraser Surrey Docks on the Fraser River, reports Newark's Journal of Commerce.
According to Chris Badger, COO of the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, customers have incurred extra costs because of CN's shift to trucks, however, dwell times for containers at the three terminals "have remained within acceptable limits."
"What remains a bigger concern for us is what will be the trigger point to move from rubber tyres back to steel wheels," he was quoted as saying. Canadian National "has promised to provide us with that number."
The report said CN has declined to give any figures for the numbers of containers delivered to and from Vancouver's terminals, before the switch to trucks and now.
CN spokesman Mark Hallman said rail service would resume to the terminals once container volumes returned to levels sufficient for transportation by rail.
Source: http://www.schednet.com
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