Wildfires burning across British Columbia damaged rail lines and brought train shipments to a grinding halt, causing a backlog of deliveries of all sorts of freight that is only now starting to slowly clear. Rail giants CN and CP warned their customers earlier this week that fires damaged major rail lines in the interior of the province, making them unsafe to use. That caused trains to back up along the network, idling thousands of rail cars and stranding their contents. CP Rail workers inspect the line on a stretch of track near Lytton, B.C. ( James MacDonald/Bloomberg)Entire system 'pretty congested'The rail backlog impacted containers trying to make it to West Coast ports for export, but also shipping containers coming in.

Source: CBC News July 08, 2021 17:34 UTC