As I mentioned in my comments, Ms. Chow, bulk supply chains are very diverse throughout the country at each port that handles bulk commodities. It's inherently more difficult to standardize performance metrics within those supply chains.
Having said that, you may be aware of the work that certain parties undertake on behalf of the Government of Canada to monitor the grain supply chain, for example. There are methodologies in place to do that.
A lot of our comments, both ours and those of our competitor and partner ports, will be on the intermodal supply chain that handles containers. The ability for the port to monitor that activity, which is very competitive, is much higher, so we have had tremendous success working with the railways and other service partners to establish performance targets and then to measure against those.
For example, in Vancouver, going back to 2010, we established a target among the various supply chain partners to measure our performance against a three-day dwell target. In other words, containers that were received in Vancouver and moving inland by rail should exit the terminals in three days or less. I'm pleased to say that in the two years since we initiated that activity, our performance generally is down around two days, which is very competitive with other ports up and down the west coast.
We have a very strong commitment to transparency and visibility of the performance of the supply chain among those partners. In fact, just prior to this session I was with Transport Canada and with the railways and the terminals discussing this very issue.
So the standard, as we've defined it, is less than three days. As I said, our performance is much better than that consistently, over the last 24 months particularly.