RAIL STRIKE

Steel, copper, aluminum and zinc shipments between the US and Canada are at risk from a strike at Canadian National Railway Co.

In the US, Union Pacific, the largest freight rail provider in the West region, said this week that it would stop accepting…

Shippers scrambled to shift freight onto trucks on Thursday as a strike at Canada’s biggest railroad, Canadian National Railway Co, hit its third day, leaving the critical fuel propane and other goods stranded.

Some 3 200 unionised employees, includi…