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CN, Prince Rupert Port Authority and Maher Terminals Sign Level of Service Agreement

September 18, 2010 Railfanning.org News Wire

MONTREAL — CN, the Prince Rupert Port Authority (PRPA) and Maher Terminals Holding Corp. announced a Level of Service Agreement to promote and better measure improvements in port performance and to enhance Prince Rupert’s role as a preferred gateway on the west coast for Central Canada and U.S. Midwest markets.

CN, DP World Sign Comprehensive Service-Level Agreement

September 17, 2010 Railfanning.org News Wire

MONTREAL — CN and DP World, operators of the Centerm Terminal in Vancouver, announced the signing of a comprehensive Service-Level Agreement designed to further enhance the competitiveness of Canada’s Pacific Gateway and improve services for customers.

Mongeau Calls for Greater Supply Chain Collaboration

September 15, 2010 Railfanning.org News Wire

MONTREAL — Claude Mongeau, president and chief executive officer of CN urged the railway’s supply chain partners to work more closely with the company to deliver better end-to-end transportation solutions that will help mutual customers compete more effectively in end markets.

CN Gearing Up for Fall Grain Harvest

September 1, 2010 Railfanning.org News Wire

EDMONTON — The Canadian harvest is getting underway and CN is ready to meet the demand. CN’s objective is to move this year’s crop more reliably than it ever has before, and CN has launched a Scheduled Grain Plan to do just that.

CN Canadian Women’s Open Raises $800,000 for the Children’s Hospital Foundation

August 29, 2010 Railfanning.org News Wire

WINNIPEG — The CN Canadian Women’s Open raised $800,000 for the Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba through the CN Miracle Match program, in which CN matches dollar for dollar donations during the tournament.

CN Signs VMA With Village of Long Grove, Ill.

August 27, 2010 Railfanning.org News Wire

CN has reached a voluntary mitigation agreement (VMA) with the Village of Long Grove, Ill., located approximately 35 miles northwest of Chicago, addressing the municipality’s environmental and safety concerns with CN’s acquisition of the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Company (EJ&E).

Port of Quebec, Terminals and CN Work to Reduce Quebec City-Toronto Transit Times by 30 Percent

August 6, 2010 Railfanning.org News Wire

The Port of Quebec, a terminal operator at the port, and CN said a service arrangement that will reduce transit times for shipments destined to Toronto to 38 hours from 53 hours, an improvement of almost 30 per cent.

CN Announces Plan to Buy Back Shares Through Private Agreements

July 30, 2010 Railfanning.org News Wire

MONTREAL — CN said it intends to purchase for cancellation up to two million of its common shares pursuant to private agreements between CN and an arm’s-length third-party seller. The purchases will form part of CN’s 15-million share repurchase program announced on Jan. 26. Such purchases will be made pursuant to an issuer bid exemption order issued by the Ontario Securities Commission and will take place before the end of September 2010. The price that CN will pay for any common shares purchased by it under such agreements will be negotiated by CN and the seller and will be at

CN Conductors on Northern Quebec Internal Short Line Ratify Collective Agreement

July 29, 2010 Railfanning.org News Wire

MONTREAL — CN announced that train conductors represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) on the Company’s Northern Quebec Internal Short Line have ratified a new five-year collective agreement. Retroactive to Dec. 15, 2007, the new labour contract applies to 48 conductors, providing them wage increases and benefit improvements.

CN, TSI Sign Service Level Agreement

July 28, 2010 Railfanning.org News Wire

MONTREAL — CN and TSI Terminal Systems Inc. announced the signing of a comprehensive Service Level Agreement (SLA). The agreement, which establishes specific performance targets and measurement tools, flows from the CN-TSI Supply Chain Collaboration Agreement announced last month that commits the parties to drive greater efficiencies and improve customer service at the Vancouver gateway. The CN-TSI SLA is designed to help improve a range of Key Performance Indicators for the benefit of mutual customers, including the on-time departure and arrival of trains, the utilization of train capacity, and the average dwell time of containers at TSI terminals, among other