# Port Officials Eyeing Rail Strike - Your ThunderBay

> Officials at the Port of Thunder Bay are monitoring the CP Rail strike and say impacts would take several days to appear. A lengthy strike would reduce grain shipments to local terminals and cut the number of ships calling at the port.

- Date: 2018-05-30 · published 2018-05-30T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: logistics · region Canada · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/65037-port-officials-eyeing-rail-strike-your-thunderbay
- Commodities: [Wheat (SRW)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/WHEAT.md), [Ocean Grain Freight](https://feedsoft.ai/c/OCEANFRT.md)

## Why it matters

If the strike lasted, fewer grain shipments and ship calls at Thunder Bay would reduce export throughput and could widen Canadian grain basis discounts.

## Read by commodity

- WHEAT: bullish ▲
- OCEANFRT: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| WHEAT | 2019-11-20 | [CN Rail strike comes at 'probably the worst time' in Thunder Bay shipping season \| CBC News](https://feedsoft.ai/events/56078-cn-rail-strike-comes-at-probably-the-worst-time-in-thunder-bay-shipping-season.md) | +0.9% | -0.7% |
| WHEAT | 2022-10-11 | [Possible U.S. Rail Strike Now Back On the Table - AgWeb](https://feedsoft.ai/events/39150-possible-u-s-rail-strike-now-back-on-the-table-agweb.md) | +3.1% | +4.3% |
| WHEAT | 2023-05-18 | [Thunder Bay grainhandlers give strike notice - Northern Ontario Business](https://feedsoft.ai/events/35952-thunder-bay-grainhandlers-give-strike-notice-northern-ontario-business.md) | -1.2% | -6.5% |
| WHEAT | 2025-10-06 | [Kazakhstan restricts rail shipments of grain to the port of Aktau](https://feedsoft.ai/events/22403-kazakhstan-restricts-rail-shipments-of-grain-to-the-port-of-aktau.md) | +0.0% | +6.3% |
| WHEAT | 2021-07-31 | [Port workers' strikes hinder Argentine exports of cereals — MercoPress](https://feedsoft.ai/events/45899-port-workers-strikes-hinder-argentine-exports-of-cereals-mercopress.md) | +1.8% | +2.3% |

## Sources

- yourthunderbay.ca: https://yourthunderbay.ca/port-officials-eyeing-rail-strike/

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