Larry, with regard to the movement of grain, I think there has to be some identified formula that will allow the railways and the grain companies to identify what they want to ship. As I understand it right now, there's a breakdown in how they calculate the allocation of cars and what's being moved, how they're tracking that. They use different formulas.
We need the railways to ask how much grain do you move, where is it coming from, what ships do you have coming in, where do you want to move it from, and how many cars are available? The elevators have to be able to give that information to the railways and coordinate this information so when cars arrive at an elevator, they arrive on time, and when they are filled, they are moved out, and moved to port on time, and put into the terminal.
The other side of this is the terminal side. We're hearing about congestion at the terminal. Right now, quite frankly, the last figure I heard, and it might be a little old, is the terminals were running at about 20% capacity. Obviously we have a lot of terminal capacity right now, and we're not using it.
Why is that happening? Because we haven't had good communication between the railways and the elevator companies on how to move the right product into port. Let's get that correct too, because you don't want to be moving out spring wheat to load a ship that's there to load with durum or canola.
We have to get all this coordinated. I'm a producer, and it happened to me the other day. I was in Regina at a meeting, and I got a phone call. They needed durum, an emergency situation. Could I get it there? You bet. As a producer, I said I'd get my trucker lined up, and we moved eight super Bs of durum the next day.
That's what has to happen. You have to have that coordination, but people have to know what's expected.