Calgary-based Class I railroad Canadian Pacific said the seven-day-a-week service can cut transit times from the West Coast to Detroit by as much as 48 hours compared with the railway’s nearest competitors.
Calgary-based Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. (CP) has launched a direct rail transportation service from Vancouver, British Columbia to Detroit, the Class I railroad said Monday.
The service runs seven days a week.
“Leveraging CP’s newest transload facility in Vancouver and its innovative live-lift operation at Portal, N.D. to accelerate cross-border shipments, this new service can cut transit times from the West Coast to Detroit by as much as 48 hours compared with our nearest competitors,” the railway said.
CP started live lift operations at the Portal border crossing in the second quarter, allowing the railway to lift single containers off of trains for inspection by customs authorities rather than having entire intermodal railcars held up.
CP launches direct service from Vancouver, BC to Detroit
