has lowered its financial forecast for the year, citing the cost of weaker consumer demand and the B.C. port workers strike.
The revision marks a more pessimistic outlook than the one offered three months earlier, when the Calgary-based company projected adjusted diluted earnings would grow by mid-single digits in 2023. Meanwhile, the two-week strike – plus a brief wildcat job action – halted operations at most ports along the West Coast. In the first week alone, it depressed the number of containers hauled by Canadian railways to barely half the level reached during the same period in 2022, according to the American Railroad Association.
“We certainly have not been perfect,” Creel said, noting integration of all 20,000 employees has proven tougher than expected.