Daily Network News

More News →

Tag Archives grain shipping

File photo of laker vessels navigating the Welland Canal. (JonathanNicholls/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets

St. Lawrence traffic to resume as tentative labour deal reached

Deal goes now to ratification vote

By ,
A week-long strike by about 360 unionized workers on the St. Lawrence Seaway ended Monday morning with a tentative agreement on a new labour deal. The St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation (SLSMC) and Unifor, the union representing the workers, announced the new agreement separately Sunday evening. Unionized workers had been on strike since just after […] Read more
File photo of locks on the Welland Canal at Allanburg, Ont. (Jimfeng/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets

Seaway workers’ strike underway

Management awaiting CIRB ruling on grain traffic

By ,
Unionized workers on the St. Lawrence Seaway walked off the job just after midnight Sunday, shutting the waterway to all cargo vessels including grain traffic for now. Unifor, which represents about 360 Seaway workers across five locals in Ontario and Quebec, had served Seaway management with 72 hours’ strike notice on Wednesday. In a release […] Read more
File photo of locks on the Welland Canal at Allanburg, Ont. (Jimfeng/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets

Seaway to seek order exempting grain traffic from strike action

Management, union say talks still ongoing

By ,
Facing a strike that would shut down traffic on the waterway as early as Sunday, the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp. has asked for an order confirming that grain would need to continue moving. Unifor, the union representing over 360 seaway workers across five union locals in Ontario and Quebec, on Wednesday served the corporation […] Read more
File photo of locks on the Welland Canal at Allanburg, Ont. (Jimfeng/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets

Seaway workers serve strike notice

Waterway would be 'closed to all traffic' in event of strike

By ,
Five Unifor locals representing 361 workers with the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp. (SLSMC) have served their 72 hours’ notice of a strike that could shut the waterway to grain and all other traffic just after midnight Sunday at the earliest. Unifor members represented by Locals 4211, 4212 and 4323 in Ontario and Locals 4319 […] Read more
Liberia-flagged bulker K Sukret, carrying grain under the Black Sea Grain Initiative, waits for inspection in the southern anchorage of Istanbul on May 17, 2023. (Photo: Reuters/Mehmet Emin Caliskan)
Crops, Markets, Reuters

Britain says Russia may target civilian shipping with mines in Black Sea

Intel suggests goal is to deter Ukraine grain exports, Britain says

By ,
London | Reuters — Russia may use sea mines to target civilian shipping in the Black Sea, including by laying them on the approach to Ukrainian ports, the British government said on Wednesday citing intelligence. Russia in July pulled out of a deal that had allowed Ukraine to safely ship food products out through what […] Read more
Vessels are seen as they await inspection under the Black Sea Grain Initiative, brokered by the UN and Turkey, in the southern anchorage of the Bosphorus at Istanbul on Dec. 11, 2022. (File photo: Reuters/Yoruk Isik)
Crops, Markets, Reuters

Russia’s leverage on grain to decline, senior U.S. official says

Attacks on ships may hurt pricing

By , ,
New York | Reuters — Russia’s leverage over Ukraine’s export of grain via the Black Sea will likely erode in weeks to come as more ships are able to leave Ukrainian ports and rising costs could prompt Moscow to reconsider its abandonment of the grain deal, a senior U.S. State Department official said. James O’Brien, […] Read more
(PortOfThunderBay.com)
Crops, Markets

Thunder Bay grain shipments up on year

Grain traffic contributes to increase in overall cargo handle

By ,
MarketsFarm — Grain shipments through the Port of Thunder Bay are running well ahead of the year-ago level, with 3.747 million tonnes of grain shipped through the port on the northern shores of Lake Superior as of Aug. 31. That was up by 1.1 million tonnes from the previous year’s pace, but slightly behind the […] Read more
Liberia-flagged bulker K Sukret, carrying grain under the Black Sea Grain Initiative, waits for inspection in the southern anchorage of Istanbul on May 17, 2023. (Photo: Reuters/Mehmet Emin Caliskan)
Crops, Markets, Reuters

UN working on guarantees for Russia to restore grain deal, Moscow skeptical

Bombing of Ukraine ports, grain facilities erodes other partners' goodwill, Guterres says

By ,
Reuters — The United Nations is “actively engaged” in trying to improve Russia’s grain and fertilizer exports in a bid to convince Moscow to again allow the safe Black Sea export of Ukraine grain, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday. “We believe that it’s necessary to create a system of mutual guarantee,” Guterres told reporters on […] Read more
Container ships pass through locks on the Panama Canal in this file photo. (CIA.gov)
Crops, Reuters, Weather

Panama Canal water levels at historic lows, restrictions to remain

Lake feeding canal low on rainfall

By ,
Panama City | Reuters — The Panama Canal’s water levels have not recovered enough as the end of the rainy season approaches and limits on daily transit and vessel draft will stay in place for the rest of the year and throughout 2024, the waterway’s authority said on Tuesday. The restrictions, implemented earlier this year […] Read more
(Omersukrugoksu/iStock/Getty Images)
General, Reuters

Russia hits grain facilities at Ukrainian Danube River port

Some 13,000 tonnes of grain destroyed says Ukrainian deputy prime minister

By ,
Reuters – Russian drones struck Ukrainian grain facilities at the Danube River port of Izmail overnight in what a senior official said on Wednesday was a systematic attempt by Moscow to prevent Kyiv exporting grain to the world. Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said the port’s export capacity had been reduced by 15% and that […] Read more

Canadian Cattlemen Presents: Depth of Field

Glacier Farmmedia Podcast

AgCanadaTV

AGCanadaTV: In case you missed it; your national ag news recap for Sept. 5, 2025

Sponsored By:
More Videos →

Latest Market News

More Market News →