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Canadian National Railway Company - Grain Unloads.


EDMONTON, Alberta--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 22, 1998-- CN(TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange.

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:CNI) Major Canadian port terminals unloaded 12,342 CN grain cars during weeks 17 - 20 of the 1998/99 crop year that started Aug. 1, compared with an industry-set guideline of 13,000.

CN unloads at Vancouver were 4,377 against a guideline of 4,800.

At Thunder Bay, 4,124 CN cars were unloaded compared with a guideline of 4,200.

The Port of Prince Rupert unloaded 3,841 CN cars against a guideline of 4,000.

A combination of terminal congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load.

congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity.
 and shifting customer demands contributed to the shortfall in unloads compared with the guidelines.

Canadian National Railway Company Canadian National Railway Company (NYSE: CNI, TSX: CNR) is a Canadian rail transportation company that operates the Canadian National Railway. It was created in December, 1918 as a Crown corporation of the Government of Canada to nationalize several bankrupt rail systems  serves all of Canada and the U.S. Midwest, including the ports of Vancouver, Montreal and Halifax and key cities of Toronto, Chicago, Detroit and Buffalo, with connections to all points in North America.
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