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rail freight transport

Canadian National Railway

Canadian National Railway Company

Headquarters: Downtown Montreal
Founded: 1919
Employees: —

Official website

Photo: Kurt Raschke · CC BY 2.0 · file

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

—

Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

19,682

Summed over 3 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Canadian National Railway is

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The Canadian National Railway Company (French: Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) (reporting mark CN) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States. It is one of Canada's two main freight rail companies, along with Canadian Pacific Kansas City.
CN is Canada's largest railway, in terms of both revenue and the physical size of its rail network, spanning Canada from the Atlantic coast in Nova Scotia to the Pacific coast in British Columbia across approximately 20,000 route miles (32,000 km) of track. In the late 20th century, CN gained extensive capacity in the United States by taking over such railroads as the Illinois Central.

Origin

Who founded it

Canadian National Railway was founded in 1919 by one named founder on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.

Founder

Government of Canada

federal government of Canada

Photo: Saffron Blaze · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: Canadian National Railway Company
Industry: rail freight transport
Legal form: Crown corporation
Country of registration: Canada
Headquarters: Downtown Montreal
Formed in: —
Founded: 1919
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Listed on: Toronto Stock Exchange
Ticker: —
ISIN: CA1363751027
Legal Entity Identifier: 3SU7BEP7TH9YEQOZCS77
Head office coordinates: 45.5088, -73.5541

Ships on record here: 4
Vessel types operated: 3
Flag states used: 3
Average vessel age: 68.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1947
Newest vessel on record: 1982
Largest vessel by tonnage: 13,105
Average tonnage: 6,561
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata

Corporate structure

Ownership and holdings

Owned by

Government of CanadaBill GatesBlackRockGates FoundationThe Vanguard GroupWellington Management CompanyCascade InvestmentMFS Investment Management

Subsidiaries and units (6)

Wisconsin Central Ltd.Grand Trunk CorporationAlgoma Central RailwayBessemer and Lake Erie RailroadDuluth, Winnipeg and Pacific RailwayDuluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 4 vessels this registry attributes to Canadian National Railway. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

By flag state

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines1

United States1

By shipbuilder

Davie Shipbuilding1

Marine Industries Limited1

Saint John Shipbuilding1

Yarrows Limited, Esquimalt, BC1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.

Year	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	4
2018	—	4
2019	—	4
2020	—	4
2021	—	4
2022	—	4
2023	—	4
2024	—	4
2025	—	4
2026	—	4

Vessel records

Ships on record

4 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
MV Abegweit	7927843	Research / survey	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1982	13,105	—	122.4 m	Saint John Shipbuilding
MV Bluenose	5046853	Ferry	Canada	1955	6,419	—	105.4 m	Davie Shipbuilding
Canadian National Tug no. 6	5059812	Tug	Canada	1948	158	—	—	Yarrows Limited, Esquimalt, BC
Abegweit	5000823	Ferry	United States	1947	—	—	113.5 m	Marine Industries Limited

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How Canadian National Railway compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 4 vessels attributed to it here, Canadian National Railway is the 213th largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

Canada is the country of registration for 23 commercial operators in this directory, among which Canadian National Railway ranks 4th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 92 vessels here. See every operator registered in Canada.

Founded in 1919, Canadian National Railway is 107 years old. This directory holds 60 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.

Provenance

Where this page comes from

Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q624798, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.

Written summaryQuoted from Canadian National Railway on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.