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	<title>Trans-Talk</title>
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	<description>A news blog from Tetracom Logistics - the subject is strictly transportation and trade.</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>CPR capitulates to Ackman-Pershing Square</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Transportation</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) has capitulated to William Ackman&#8217;s demands for firing CEO Fred Green and replacing 7 directors on the railway&#8217;s 16-member board. 
CPR announced at 7:30 AM this morning, in advance of the company&#8217;s Calgary AGM (Annual General Meeting), that Green is gone, resigning his director&#8217;s seat. The other 6 old guard directors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FTA report projects transportation spending needs for U.S.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Transportation</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Released on March 16, 2012, the 2010 edition of Status of the Nation&#8217;s Highways, Bridges, and Transit: Conditions &#038; Performance points to a sizeable gap between current spending and projected levels of investment needed to maintain American highway and transit systems. Conditions and Performance is a biennial report to Congress that provides information on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Container lines seek evolution of rate structure</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tetracom</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Transportation</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 7, 2012, the U.S. FMC (Federal Maritime Commission) began allowing the use of freight rate indices (indexes) for contracts between shippers and container carriers. Previously shipping contracts were based solely upon published tariffs, which will remain in use for probably a majority of the box trade. 
The FMC&#8217;s final rule for freight index-based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vancouver allows taxis in bus lanes</title>
		<link>http://www.tetracom.ca/transtalk/?p=2193</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tetracom</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Transportation</category>
	<category>Vancouver Issues</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The City of Vancouver today launched a one-year pilot project that allows taxis to travel, but not stop, pick up or drop off passengers, in six of the city’s seven bus lanes.
The streets with bus lanes included in the pilot are: Pender, Hastings, Burrard, Broadway, Georgia and Granville streets. 
Granville St., which carries a significant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Via train was speeding at time of crash</title>
		<link>http://www.tetracom.ca/transtalk/?p=2192</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Transportation</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What We Know To Date
At 15:30 Eastern Standard Time on February 26, VIA Rail passenger train 92, en route from Niagara Falls to Toronto, proceeding eastward on CN&#8217;s Oakville Subdivision, entered the crossover in Burlington and derailed the locomotive and 5 coaches. The locomotive struck a building after it derailed and was totally destroyed. Many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York State gives up on contentious ballast regulations</title>
		<link>http://www.tetracom.ca/transtalk/?p=2191</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tetracom</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Transportation</category>
	<category>Trade</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Government of Canada&#8217;s efforts to block rigorous go-it-alone ballast rules for ships operating in New York State waters has born fruit. New York&#8217;s proposed rules were also opposed by several American jurisdictions worried about the impact on international trade through the Port of New York and inland ports on the Great Lakes.
In a Feb. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Box ships hit low point in cycle (they hope)</title>
		<link>http://www.tetracom.ca/transtalk/?p=2190</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Transportation</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing for Canadian Transportation and Logistics, Leo Ryan offers an overview of turmoil for container lines. Good news for shippers, at least on rates, but bad news for carriers.
Towards the end of an eventful 2011, global shipping lines were doing their utmost to adjust to spreading economic malaise, especially in eurozone countries reeling under a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alaskan oil tanker discovers cracked hull during voyage</title>
		<link>http://www.tetracom.ca/transtalk/?p=2189</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tetracom</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Transportation</category>
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	<category>Vancouver Issues</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 185,000 DWT Alaskan Navigator, an oil tanker with capacity of 1.3 million barrels that sails between Valdez, Alaska and American west coast ports, is undergoing repairs in Port Angeles, WA after a crack in its outer hull was discovered at sea. The inner hull of the double-hulled ship was not breached and no oil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Port Metro Vancouver antagonizes Richmond mayor</title>
		<link>http://www.tetracom.ca/transtalk/?p=2188</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Port Metro Vancouver says it has no long-term plans to expand operations on Agricultural Land Reserve farmland — but Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie doesn’t believe the agency.
Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Richmond+mayor+wary+Port+Metro+Vancouver+farmland+plans/6087681/story.html#ixzz1lFdeEKoJ

The Port&#8217;s CEO Robin Silvester has added fuel to a public spat with proponents of British Columbia&#8217;s Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) over the future of the 80-hectare [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will provincial government return subsidies to BC Ferries?</title>
		<link>http://www.tetracom.ca/transtalk/?p=2187</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tetracom</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Transportation</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Under Bill 14, the BC Ferry Commission (the “Commission” or the “Commissioner”) has been mandated by the Province of BC to conduct a review (the “Review”) of the Coastal Ferry Act (the “Act”) as it relates to the regulation of ferry operators. The objective of the Review is to recommend to the Minister of Transportation [...]]]></description>
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