A federal task force on Canada’s supply-chain woes recommended the government allow containers to be moved off quays before customs inspections, increase competition in rail service, finish twinning a highway between Quebec and New Brunswick, and waive half the rent airport authorities pay if they put the savings into goods-moving capital projects. The pandemic is still affecting goods movement and climate change is threatening worse. (The Logic)
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A federal task force on Canada’s supply-chain woes recommended the government allow containers to be moved off quays before customs inspections, increase competition in rail service, finish twinning a highway between Quebec and New Brunswick, and waive half the rent airport authorities pay if they put the savings into goods-moving capital projects. The pandemic is still affecting goods movement and climate change is threatening worse. (The Logic)
Talking point: Longer-term, the task force advised, the government needs a supply-chain office that brings together siloed expertise from multiple departments to digitalize supply-chain information from end to end (to enhance predictability and planning capacity) and devise a 30-to-50-year vision for supply-chain labour and infrastructure. Transport Minister Omar Alghabra called a news conference at a Mississauga, Ont., trucking company to say the report will inform a new federal supply-chain strategy.
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