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OMAHA — A significant fertilizer company says the limits Union Pacific is placing on rail site visitors to clear up congestion will delay shipments that farmers want through the spring planting season.
CF Industries stated Thursday that the railroad ordered it to chop its shipments almost 20%. Union Pacific has stated it’s limiting rail site visitors and hiring aggressively as a part of a plan to enhance service after grain and ethanol shippers complained about shortcomings.
Federal regulators have introduced plans to carry a listening to later this month about the service issues alongside Union Pacific and different main U.S. railroads which have compelled some grain mills and ethanol crops to curtail manufacturing whereas ready on trains and left farmers with out a place to promote their crops as a result of grain elevators are having bother delivery grain.
“The timing of this action by Union Pacific could not come at a worse time for farmers,” stated CF Industries CEO Tony Will. “Not solely will fertilizer be delayed by these delivery restrictions, however further fertilizer wanted to finish spring functions could also be unable to achieve farmers in any respect.
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CF Industries stated the limits will have an effect on fertilizer deliveries to Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas and California from its crops in Louisiana and Iowa. The company stated it believes it’s one among simply 30 firms Union Pacific imposed restrictions on.
Union Pacific spokeswoman Kristen South stated the measures the Omaha-based railroad is taking are designed to deal with issues within the provide chain which have clogged rail shipments. The railroad has additionally introduced 100 locomotives out of storage and shifted roughly 80 crew members to high-demand areas.
Photos: How to switch an 8 million pound railroad bridge truss on the Mississippi River
Merchants Bridge will get a raise
People watch from a particular riverboat cruise as staff increase a brand new bridge truss (proper) into place on the Merchants Bridge over the Mississippi River in St. Louis on Friday, Sept. 17, 2021. This is the primary of three trusses to be lifted in place for the $222 million undertaking. Each truss part weighs over 8 million kilos and is inbuilt Wisconsin and transported to St. Louis, the place it’s assembled and put in. The bridge was initially inbuilt 1890. The reconstruction undertaking will widen the bridge permitting for 2 units of tracks and double the prepare site visitors every day. Photo by Colter Peterson, cpeterson@post-dispatch.com
Merchants Bridge will get a raise
Crews increase a brand new bridge truss, proper, into place on the Merchants Bridge over the Mississippi River in St. Louis on Friday, Sept. 17, 2021. This is the primary of three trusses to be lifted in place for the $222 million undertaking. Each truss part weights 8.6 million kilos and is inbuilt Wisconsin and transported to St. Louis, the place it’s assembled and put in. The bridge was initially inbuilt 1890. The reconstruction undertaking will widen the bridge permitting for double the prepare site visitors every day. Photo by Colter Peterson, cpeterson@post-dispatch.com
Merchants Bridge will get a raise
Crews increase a brand new bridge truss into place on the Merchants Bridge over the Mississippi River in St. Louis on Friday, Sept. 17, 2021. This is the primary of three trusses to be lifted in place for the $222 million undertaking. Each truss part weights 8.6 million kilos and is inbuilt Wisconsin and transported to St. Louis, the place it’s assembled and put in. The bridge was initially inbuilt 1890. The reconstruction undertaking will widen the bridge permitting for double the prepare site visitors every day. Photo by Colter Peterson, cpeterson@post-dispatch.com
Merchants Bridge will get a raise
Crews increase a brand new bridge truss into place on the Merchants Bridge over the Mississippi River in St. Louis on Friday, Sept. 17, 2021. This is the primary of three trusses to be lifted in place for the $222 million undertaking. Each truss part weights 8.6 million kilos and is inbuilt Wisconsin and transported to St. Louis, the place it’s assembled and put in. The bridge was initially inbuilt 1890. The reconstruction undertaking will widen the bridge permitting for double the prepare site visitors every day. Photo by Colter Peterson, cpeterson@post-dispatch.com
Merchants Bridge will get a raise
Bob Wagoner, left, Jane Louer, heart, and Ron Goldfeder watch from a Riverboat as crews increase a brand new bridge truss into place on the Merchants Bridge over the Mississippi River in St. Louis on Friday, Sept. 17, 2021. This is the primary of three trusses to be lifted in place for the $222 million undertaking. Each truss part weights 8.6 million kilos and is inbuilt Wisconsin and transported to St. Louis, the place it’s assembled and put in. The bridge was initially inbuilt 1890. The reconstruction undertaking will widen the bridge permitting for double the prepare site visitors every day. Photo by Colter Peterson, cpeterson@post-dispatch.com
Merchants Bridge will get a raise
The McKinley Bridge is seen within the foreground as crews increase a brand new bridge truss into place on the Merchants Bridge over the Mississippi River in St. Louis on Friday, Sept. 17, 2021. This is the primary of three trusses to be lifted in place for the $222 million undertaking. Each truss part weights 8.6 million kilos and is inbuilt Wisconsin and transported to St. Louis, the place it’s assembled and put in. The bridge was initially inbuilt 1890. The reconstruction undertaking will widen the bridge permitting for double the prepare site visitors every day. Photo by Colter Peterson, cpeterson@post-dispatch.com
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