{"id":7538,"date":"2020-04-07T09:36:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T06:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/pipeline-protests-cripple-rail-and-port-operations-across-canada\/7538\/"},"modified":"2020-04-07T09:36:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T06:36:56","slug":"pipeline-protests-cripple-rail-and-port-operations-across-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/pipeline-protests-cripple-rail-and-port-operations-across-canada\/7538\/","title":{"rendered":"Pipeline protests cripple rail and port operations across Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Supply chains are coming under huge pressure in Canada after close to three weeks of demonstrations led by a local tribe fighting a proposed pipeline. While some of the country is slowly getting back to normal, operations at ports and rail lines in Quebec remain deeply troubled.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>According to an update from German carrier Hapag-Lloyd yesterday the blockades of key rail track and port infrastructure facilities throughout Canada continue. Hapag-Lloyd noted CP Rail tracks remain comparatively clear and the port of Prince Rupert is now clear and recovery is underway.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe blockade in Ontario remains in place, and CN\u2019s Eastern Canadian network is more or less shutdown. A limited number of trains are operating in the Halifax\/Montreal corridor. Various options to move \/divert cargo out of Halifax are being explored,\u201d Hapag-Lloyd reported.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The protests started by indigenous communities angry at a planned gas pipeline mooted for northern British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The port of Vancouver has reported the demonstrations have led to a growing ship backlog with 48 vessels at its anchorage as of yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Out east, the port of Montreal has warned it might have to suspend operations as containers pile up due to the rail blockades.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>splash247<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supply chains are coming under huge pressure in Canada after close to three weeks of demonstrations led by a local tribe fighting a proposed pipeline. While some of the country is slowly getting back to normal, operations at ports and rail lines in Quebec remain deeply troubled. According to an update from German carrier Hapag-Lloyd &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[374,1160,1162,1158,953,1159,1161],"class_list":["post-7538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-port-news","tag-canada","tag-cripple","tag-operations","tag-pipeline","tag-port","tag-protests","tag-rail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7538","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=7538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/7539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}