CN publishes 2024-2025 Grain Plan

CN published its 2024-2025 Grain Plan, which builds on the Company’s successful operational improvements and strategic capital investments from the previous grain season. “We are confident that we have the right approach and resources in place to move this year’s Canadian grain crop efficiently. We continue to lean into our scheduled railroading model and making sure that our ongoing capital investments position us for success again this year. Working with supply chain stakeholders and governments, we are taking steps to address several regulatory issues impacting the sector, to remove obstacles so we can focus our attention on continuing to deliver even better service to our customers,” said Tracy Robinson, President and Chief Executive Officer, CN. The CN Grain Plan highlights several new actions and initiatives for 2024-25. These include: the delivery of 750 new high-efficiency grain hopper cars this crop year, a continued focus on scheduled railroading which has produced demonstrated improvement since implementation in 2022-23, deployment of new firefighting equipment to help protect the supply chain, and the use of new technologies to improve safety, such as testing new mobile fire detection equipment and the continued use of CN’s autonomous track inspection program.