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Rail News Home Canadian Pacific 12/23/2021 Rail News: Canadian Pacific
Canadian Pacific today announced it executed a new long-term agreement with potash exporting and marketing firm Canpotex Ltd.The parties’ new seven-year contract — which runs through 2028 — succeeds the current 10-year pact that expires in 2022.CP is Canpotex’s primary rail service provider for transporting Canadian potash to overseas export markets."Canpotex and CP are like-minded organizations, focused on asset utilization and efficiency. This long-standing relationship makes sense for us both,” said CP President and CEO Keith Creel in a press release.CP enables the potash exporter’s supply chain to be optimized more efficiently and safely from mine to port terminals by leveraging the railroad’s service options and network capacity, Canpotex officials said."This new agreement … will provide the safe and efficient rail service we depend on to reliably reach our customers in overseas markets," said Canpotex President and CEO Gord McKenzie.

Rail News Home Canadian Pacific 12/22/2021 Rail News: Canadian Pacific
Canadian Pacific this week announced that the CP Women's Open golf tournament has helped raise more than CA$2.8 million over the past two years for the British Columbia Children’s Hospital Foundation.The money will go toward the hospital's purchase of cardiac ultrasound machines and other equipment, as well as research that supports the catheterization program, CP officials said in a press release.An additional CA$557,000 will go to Kamloops Royal Inland Hospital for renovations and equipment for a new cardiac wing.The CP Women’s Open tournament has not been held since before the pandemic, but has continued to raise money in the meantime. Fundraising efforts since CP assumed title sponsorship have totaled more than CA$16.85 million."We are grateful for the community's ongoing participation and support, and look forward to bringing the CPWO back once it is safe to do so," said CP President and CEO Keith Creel.

Rail News Home Canadian National Railway - CN 12/22/2021 Rail News: Canadian National Railway - CN
CN's network in British Columbia was shut down for three weeks due to washouts. Photo – cn.ca