Canadian National Announces Strategic Intermodal Initiative With i2.

Business Editors

MONTREAL & DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 11, 2000

Canadian National (NYSE:CNI) (TSE:CNR.) announced today it has purchased supply chain planning and management software and services from i2 Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq:ITWO) to improve its intermodal products and better manage its intermodal capacity and assets.

CN Intermodal, a business unit of Canadian National, will implement i2's demand planning (forecasting) and supply chain planner (network planning) solutions over the next year.

Intermodal transport -- rail haulage of containers and truck trailers -- is CN's fastest-growing business segment. CN's year-to-date intermodal traffic is up 14 per cent from the comparable period of 1999.

CN recently launched a significant service initiative, chopping almost 24 hours off its intermodal schedules between Toronto and the principal western Canadian cities of Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. More intermodal improvements are planned.

James Foote, CN's senior vice-president, marketing and sales, said, "i2's solutions will enable CN to do business in the rapidly evolving eBusiness world. CN's investment in this planning and logistics infrastructure is essential to meet its goal of increasing its market share.

"i2's planning engines will help CN better manage its network intermodal capacity. With this technology, we'll be faster to respond to our intermodal customers' service needs and make it easier for them to do business with us. i2 solutions will also help CN make greater strides in boosting asset utilization. CN already leads all North American railroads in efficiency, as measured by its operating ratio."

Mark Skoda, executive vice-president of i2, said, "The intermodal initiative with CN represents an important first step for i2 in the rail industry. Using i2's traditional supply chain planning and management will help CN realize significant service improvements and growth.

"CN is the first railroad to adapt and apply our technologies and solutions, and we are pleased to be working with such a market-leading company."

Canadian National Railway Company spans Canada and mid-America, from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to the Gulf of Mexico, serving the ports of Vancouver, Prince Rupert, B.C., Montreal, Halifax, New Orleans and Mobile, Ala., and the key cities of Toronto, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, St. Louis, and Jackson, Miss., with connections to all points in North America. For more information about CN, visit its Web site, www.cn.ca.

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