Watchdog probes commodity discrimination by rail

The Canadian Press — A preliminary report from the Canadian Transportation Agency appears to confirm shippers’ complaints about a relatively high number of restrictions on commodities they tried to move by rail through the Vancouver area. Industry groups...

Samsung ditching plastic packaging

Samsung Electronics has announced it will replace plastic packaging used for its bevy of products — from mobile phones and tablets to home appliances and wearables — with paper and other environmentally sustainable materials like recycled/bio-based plastics. Samsung...

Trade agreements key, Resolute

Representatives of Resolute Forest Products are asking Queen’s Park for help, as they battle with American producers for access to U.S. markets. In a news report published in Dryden Now, Resolute says they have $100 million in duty deposits sitting in...

Forest2Market predictions for global wood markets

Timberbiz — Forests2Market, which focuses primarily on the US and the American continent, has provided its predictions for 2019. The company is a provider of global timber pricing, cost benchmarks and in-depth analytics for participants in the wood raw materials...