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Automakers frozen out of Halifax harbor, delaying deliveries of vehicles.
Thousands of vehicles are frozen in the snow and ice in Eastern Passage, N s a problem that causes delays in deliveries of vehicles to consumers and requires automakers to scramble to find other ports.
The bitter combination of snow, rain and more snow caused the gel and Autoport in backlog at the Port of Halifax, the only east coast Canadian port where vehicles sold by car manufacturers based in Europe operating in Canada are discharged.
Automakers have hijacked ships to Canada in Baltimore and Davisville, RI, then loaded new vehicles on trucks to bring to Canadian destinations Frost and the backlog will result in delays of up to one month in delivery to customers, some brokers.
The cars were quite frozen, said Lindsay Duffield, President, Jaguar Land Rover Canada, who said the last report he received was that 90 vehicles of his company expect the depression to Autoport, which belongs to Canadian national Railway Co.
Last year, there was this overall shortage of wagons based on this very bad winter and they had to shorten trains, M. Duffield said we thought, well, this can worsen t.
The railroad said auto dealers and manufacturers on March 3 that the heavy snow left unable to fulfill its service obligations, stating what is known in the law of force majeure contracts or inevitable incident spokesman Mark Hallman CN said.
In an effort to reduce the backlog, the railroad brought more managers and added a change in the afternoon to move non vehicles stuck in the ice M. Hallman would not say how many vehicles are blocked, but said that the port is over capacity.
CN had frank discussions with automakers about climate challenges affecting Autoport, and they understand the extraordinary situation in the establishment, he added.
A large number of vehicles were buried in ice and snow, making them impossible to move, he said, as a domino, CN has found it difficult to off load ships CN continues to accept ships Autoport, but clearly to customers there will be delays.
On Friday afternoon, the road to Florida, a Panamanian-flagged ship carrying vehicles was accosted at Autoport after crossing the Atlantic from the German port of Emden The city on the North Sea is home to a Volkswagen plant and is one of three self main seaports in Europe.
Doug Shostak, CEO of Glenmore Audi in Calgary, said his dealership awaiting delivery of about 15 vehicles that were sold to clients.
They were to be delivered at the end of March, but probably won t arrive at the dealership until the end of next month, said Mr. Shostak.
They will not go and try to cut a car, he said they're just going to let nature take its course and they will get through them.
Porsche Cars Canada Ltd. Redirected two ships to Halifax in Davisville, R I spokesman Patrick Saint-Pierre said.
Obviously, M. Duffield said, can be controlled t time, but it highlights a major concern of the infrastructure for automakers.
It is certainly something that will become bigger and bigger problem in the coming years, a large number of European manufacturers expect a strong growth in sales volume, he said.
Bad weather has hampered CN operations for two consecutive winters last winter, the railway accused extreme cold in much of Canada for delays in moving the record grain crop harvested in Western Canada The railway recently told politicians in Ottawa that cold weather in Northern Ontario led to an increase in the number of derailments, including two oil fire train accidents.
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