Canadian Pacific Outlines New Vision For The Future

The Plan for Change Going Forward "We now have a leadership team that understands the urgency of making change and improving the culture of this organization" Harrison said.  "CP has many talented railroaders who want to win.  Together we are squarely focused on improved service and becoming the low cost carrier.  This will allow us to continue to grow with our customers."

Moving forward, Harrison outlined various plans CP will execute to continue to improve service reliability, increase the railway's efficiency, and grow the business.  Key highlights include:

• Reduce roughly 4,500 employee and/or contractor positions by 2016 - through job reductions, natural attrition and fewer contractors.  We have already made progress on this front and expect 1,700 positions to be eliminated by year end;
• New longer sidings program will improve asset utilization and increase train length and velocity - The plan will allow CP to move the same or increased volumes with fewer trains, and is expected to save over 14,500, or 4%, crew starts;
• Explore options to maximize full value of existing and anticipated surplus real estate holdings;
• Relocate CP's current corporate headquarters in downtown Calgary to new office space at CP-owned Ogden Yard by 2014;
• Review options for the Delaware & Hudson (D&H) in the U.S. Northeast, while maintaining options for continued growth in the energy business;
• Announced earlier, CP is seeking expressions of interest on the 660-mile portion of the former Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern (DM&E), west of Tracy, Minnesota.

"I am excited about what we've achieved to date, but we have only just started this journey to being a more competitive railway. We will continue to drive our service offering while focusing on taking unproductive costs out of the business.  We see a strong earnings profile and solid free cash flow picture emerging." Harrison added. "Canadian Pacific is a great franchise with strong growth upside and we are more confident than ever that we will drive shareholder value long into the future."

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