Transportation problems need repair to keep national economy workingThe supply and cost of shipping containers needs to be dealt with. Ottawa—Making sure the national transportation network is performing well is vital to Canada’s export dependent economy, says Murad Al-Katib, President and CEO of AGT Food and Ingredients Inc.Railways, ports and containers are vital to delivering Canadian goods to foreign customers, he told the Commons international trade committee. Exports are the lifeblood of the economy, making transportation, and specifically rail, ports and containers, the veins and arteries that allow everything to flow. “For decades, we’ve been known as the Canadian breadbasket or the breadbasket of the world. The growing use of containers to ship those products has become a major issue in recent years become of cost and supply problems, he said.

Source: National Post November 16, 2022 03:27 UTC