News / Forwarders scramble for alternatives as Canadian rail strike looks set

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As the clock ticks down to a shutdown of the Canadian rail freight network tomorrow, forwarders are scrambling to keep cargo moving – but they find themselves hamstrung by a toxic cocktail of disruption.

Unless a last-minute resolution can be reached in the contract dispute between the Teamsters union and railways Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC), the country’s rail freight operations will grind to a halt.

Since the union announced the industrial ...