{"id":28296,"date":"2021-12-04T01:05:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T22:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/port-of-vancouver-rail-service-cut-off-by-flooding-mud-slides\/28296\/"},"modified":"2021-12-04T01:05:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T22:05:47","slug":"port-of-vancouver-rail-service-cut-off-by-flooding-mud-slides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/port-of-vancouver-rail-service-cut-off-by-flooding-mud-slides\/28296\/","title":{"rendered":"Port of Vancouver rail service cut off by flooding, mud slides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-before-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>The Port of Vancouver, on Canada\u2019s west coast, said on Tuesday that rail and road operations servicing the port have been \u201cheavily impacted\u201d by recent flooding in British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>In an operations update, the port said, \u201cAll rail service coming to and from the Port of Vancouver is halted because of flooding in the B.C. interior.\u201d Both Canadian National and Canadian Pacific railways are currently conducting damage assessments.<\/p>\n<p>The port indicated that vessel delays and heightened anchorage demand are expected because of the disruptions to terminal operations.<\/p>\n<p>Flooding has also caused numerous highway closures due to washouts and landslide debris throughout southwestern B.C., including all main routes to Vancouver.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-in-post-middle\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>In some parts of B.C., 20 cm of rain fell on Sunday. The province\u2019s Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure, Rob Fleming, said it was \u201cthe worst weather storm in a century\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Federal Minister of Transport Omar Alghabra said in a tweet: \u201cWe are following closely the serious situation posed by flooding and mudslides in BC. We are in contact with CP and CN and will continue to assess the impact on rail lines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0storms\u00a0forced the closure of the Trans Mountain\u00a0pipeline, which takes crude from Alberta to the Pacific Coast.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-after-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2\"> <script>googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2'); });<\/script> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta post-bottom-tags post-tags-modern\">\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta-title\">\n<span class=\"tie-icon-tags\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span> Tags<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tagcloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/tag\/canada\/\" rel=\"tag\">Canada<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>splash247<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Port of Vancouver, on Canada\u2019s west coast, said on Tuesday that rail and road operations servicing the port have been \u201cheavily impacted\u201d by recent flooding in British Columbia. In an operations update, the port said, \u201cAll rail service coming to and from the Port of Vancouver is halted because of flooding in the B.C. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-port-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/28232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}