Prices, Tariffs & Transit Time

Want to make a difference to your bottom line?  Did you know that you can fit three truckloads into one railcar? This means cost-savings for you any way you look at it.

Not rail served but still want to save? Intermodal shipping allows you to enjoy the cost benefits of rail shipping over long distances and the convenience of door-to-door trucking delivery.

The best part? Our prices are competitive.  We work hard at looking at all the market factors to provide you with the best price and route possible. Rail and intermodal shipping is reliable and cost-effective.

The “Get Carload Price” tool allows you to quickly obtain a price quote for your railcar shipments from any CN origin to any destination with any commodity. 

The “Get Intermodal Price” tool allows you to look up public intermodal prices, access transit times, price documents and other useful information.

More Tools & Documents to Help You with your Transportation Purchase

• Get Transit Time - find out how many hours it takes to move a shipment from origin to destination
• Get Route - find the most efficient locations for interchanging your carload traffic with other Class 1 railroads
• Fuel Surcharge - look up CNs Fuel Surcharge tariff details
• Exchange Rate - check the value of the Canadian dollar against the US dollar and vice versa
• Price Documents - locate the latest version of a price publication and view, search, print, download and subscribe to any price document
• Price Calendar - get an outlook of when prices are renewed in the year
• Optional Services - check out the services we offer that go beyond the basic hauling of freight
• Get a Carload Price - look up public prices for all carload commodities on CN's network, get the transit times for CN local moves, as well as  interline prices with other Class 1 carriers and to compare a given the carload price with an intermodal price. Once you login you can also look up customer-specific prices for all carload commodities , accept new prices online, receive automatic email notification of your accepted prices, get the rail miles for origin-destination pairs  and renew your web prices directly online.
• Get Intermodal Price - obtain a price quote for your domestic or overseas Intermodal shipments with CN.Once you log in you can look up customer-specific prices for intermodal shipments and download all the detailed price information downloaded directly to your computer.