STUDY NO. 186 APRIL 2020 - RIBBONS OF STEEL 2: ENSURING AN

When economic and market cycles occur, the government might need to intervene, and the Australian and European cases have shown that a hybrid model of investments/control of the railroad market is an option to managing the long-term infrastructure requirements of a rail network. [...] In particular, the study: • conducts a review of the current rail-based logistics chain (including railways, shippers, terminal operators, primary rail corridors and ports) with a focus on service provided to Canadian shippers and customers of the Canadian National Railway (CN) and the Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) within Canada, including to and from ports and border crossings; • presents CERI’s. [...] The CN Louisiana infrastructure investments connect the Port of New Orleans to the markets across the continent and link some of the most important businesses in the River Parishes and Baton Rouge to their customers and suppliers. [...] With the purchases of the Dakota, Minnesota, and Eastern Railway (DM&E) and the Iowa, Chicago and Eastern Railway (IC&E) in September 2007, CP’s rail network extends into the US Midwest. [...] Included in the figure are the oil sands, the Bakken Shale Formation, the Marcellus Shale, and the ethanol-producing areas in the US Midwest.