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The federal government's grain monitor Quorum Corporation released its weekly performance update for Grain Week 42.

Space in primary elevators is good - as road bans remain in effect across the prairies, country stocks dropped to 2.34 million metric tonnes. 

Total Western Port terminal stocks increased to 1.52 MMT in Week 42, utilizing 79% of the working capacity.

West Coast unloads were 6,332 cars and 2,051 for Thunder Bay.

The total average terminal out-of-car time (OCT) increased to 15.2% from 6.0% the previous week. 

Year-to-date Western Canadian shipments from port terminal elevators were 12% higher than the same period last year.

The vessel lineup at Vancouver dropped to 14 vessels, with the lineup for Prince Rupert now at 3.

Overall, the vessels cleared from Vancouver was 11 and  3 from Prince Rupert 

Quorum Corporation is the  federal government's grain monitor.