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Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern are consolidating their US rail networks. Canadian rail is CN and CP, so this shouldn't touch you directly. But when US rail consolidation raises intermodal costs, cross-border drayage capacity tightens, and that affects every container flow through Montreal.
Port of Montreal congestion doesn't announce itself with a press release—it announces itself on your dock when drayage shows up three hours late and a container release sits pending for two extra days. Container dwell times directly compress the window between discharge and inbound handling, forcing warehouses into higher racking density and tighter cross-dock cutoffs. We've seen Q4 effects bleed into January.