Western Fires Halt Hundreds of Canada Rail Cars, Slowing Exports
- ‘Thousands of containers stuck’ after blazes in Canada’s west
- Some Vancouver shipments restored on Canadian Pacific line
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Hundreds of rail cars have been halted by wildfires that damaged tracks in western Canada during the region’s severe heat wave, creating a bottleneck of exports and delaying imports.
A fire that burned down a village in British Columbia last week damaged two nearby tracks operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. and Canadian National Railway Co., the two companies that account for the bulk of train transportation to the country’s biggest port in Vancouver. Grains, lumber, containers and other goods move along these lines.