Roundtable held with federal ministers, companies and stakeholders across the grain supply chain.

Thirty-nine short line and regional connections from across North America attended.

Canadian railway company moved 25.8 million tonnes of field crops.

Income slides 9% in second quarter.

Places an initial order for 1,000 cars from National Steel Car.

New law incentivizes rail companies to improve grain shipping services.

Railroad, port leaders discuss plans to keep increasingly larger harvests flowing through the transportation system.

Revenues from grain movement ease 9% in the period.

Transport Minister Marc Garneau and AAFC Minister MacAulay “express significant concern of railway failure.”

Joan Hardy will take over as v.p. of sales and marketing for grain and fertilizer on April 1.