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Canadian Pacific Kansas City said that it has received a 72-hour strike notice from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, or IBEW, Canadian Signals and Communications System Council No. 11, which represents approximately 300 Signals and Communications employees across Canada. Should a work stoppage occur, the company said it has prepared contingency plans that will allow CPKC to continue to serve customers and the Canadian economy. Safe and efficient railway operations will continue. The company said, "The IBEW has said it intends to strike at 08:00 MDT Sunday, May 31. We remain committed to bargaining in good faith with IBEW in order to reach a negotiated outcome that is in the best interests of our employees and their families, our customers, and the company. Negotiations will continue into the weekend. During this negotiation, we have made fair and balanced proposals with wage and benefit increases consistent with collective agreements currently in place with all our other unions across Canada. CPKC has an excellent track record of successful collective bargaining with our unions across North America. We remain hopeful a resolution can be reached without a work stoppage."

Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CP) President and CEO Keith Creel issued the following statement regarding the merger application refiled by Union Pacific (UNP) and Norfolk Southern (NSC) with the Surface Transportation Board on April 30, 2026: "Having taken nearly four months to refile their application, longer than it took for them to prepare the initial filing, UP and NS' new application doesn't change the underlying reality that this mega-merger is unnecessary and falls well short of meeting the high benchmark set out in the STB's updated 2001 major merger rules. A combined UP-NS could place nearly 50 percent of U.S. freight rail traffic in the hands of a single company that already has a troubled history, some very recent, of abusing market power to the detriment of American businesses and workers. None of this serves the public interest. None of this serves the interests of shippers. All of it puts our supply chains and economy at needless risk. On Friday, May 8, 2026, CPKC filed comments addressing the completeness of the revised application. In those comments, we address why it does not appear that UP and NS have met the specific STB requirements to submit a detailed market impact analysis based on their projected future shares of rail traffic flows for key commodities and corridors. This has left us asking, did UP overlook this specific instruction from the STB? If not, does UP have something to hide? One thing is certain: This is emblematic of UP continuing to have its own interpretation of rules and STB orders, and of how those apply to UP. We are confident that, if the STB accepts the refiled application, it will conduct a vigorous assessment and regulatory review. CPKC encourages every rail customer to get involved. File a notice of intent to participate. All stakeholders must carefully consider what is being proposed here and fully participate in this process. If rail customers, and other stakeholders, don't provide their perspectives on this irreversible decision, those perspectives will never be heard."

Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CP) and CSX (CSX) announced upgrades to the Southeast Mexico Express premium service featuring faster transit times with more origin and destination options for customers looking to reach new markets. The new SMX premium service schedule and routing options launched May 4, offer transit times between southeastern markets such as Atlanta, Charlotte or central Florida, and markets in Texas and Mexico, including Dallas and Monterrey. The service improvements have reduced transit times for every previously available SMX option. The new SMX dedicated train service provides two-day service between Atlanta and Dallas, with three-day service from Monterrey and four-day service from central Mexico to Atlanta.

Canadian Pacific Kansas City said it has broken its April monthly record for transporting Canadian grain and grain products, moving 2.9M metric tonnes, or MMT, in April. This new April achievement beat the previous tonnage record set in April 2020. Last month's 30,381 carloads also set a new April monthly record, beating the previous high set in April 2020. Q1 totals of 7.2 MMT beat the previous record quarter reached in the Q1 of 2021. Through the first 38 weeks of the 2025-2026 crop year, CPKC transported more than 21.9 MMT of Canadian grain and grain products. These are the largest Canadian grain totals since the record setting 2020-2021 crop year. To begin 2026, CPKC set a new January monthly Canadian grain record moving 2.395 MMT beating the previous tonnage record set in January 2023. January's 24,688 carloads also set a new monthly record, beating the previous high also set in January 2023. In February, CPKC moved 2.232 MMT beating the previous tonnage record set in February 2021. February's 23,088 carloads also set a new February monthly record, beating the previous high set in February 2021.