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One of the problems we have with rail is the fleet, and the quantity of equipment that is available. We have seen in the past several years the number of ships going to the Halifax port increase incredibly. If the rails only have 500 pieces of equipment available in a day and there's a capacity for 1,000 containers, it's just backlogging continuously.
Don't forget that there are at least two, three or four different companies involved from the shipping line to the unloading, to the subcontracting carrier that will move the containers, sometimes directly from the port to rail, which may be only one or two kilometres, but sometimes it's not available straight at the port. Then there are the rail transportation services and a fourth company, locally, that will actually take the container to your yard.
Most of these companies are short on labour, so you have a lack of equipment and everyone is backlogging on jobs. For every company you deal with, every step will have a few days' delay here and a few days' delay there. In the end, it easily adds up to a week to 10 days, but the availability of equipment is definitely a key feature.