CN donates an additional $25,000 to the Mission to Seafarers Halifax


HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Sept. 12, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE: CNI) announced it is making an additional donation of $25,000 to the Mission to Seafarers Halifax. As the Halifax community has just been hit hard by Hurricane Dorian, CN wants to demonstrate its solidarity by making this additional donation to an organization that is doing impressive work with seafarers who come to the Port of Halifax.

“CN wants to improve the quality of life of the communities in which it operates and wants to demonstrate its solidarity with the Halifax community by making this donation to a local based organization,” said Sean Finn, executive vice-president corporate services and chief legal officer at CN. “CN has a long history of supporting local organizations in Nova Scotia and we want to continue to do so in these difficult times.”

CN is a true backbone of the economy, transporting more than C$250 billion worth of goods annually for a wide range of business sectors, ranging from resource products to manufactured products to consumer goods, across a rail network of approximately 20,000 route miles spanning Canada and mid-America. CN – Canadian National Railway Company, along with its operating railway subsidiaries – serves the cities and ports of Vancouver and Prince Rupert, B.C., Montreal, Halifax, New Orleans, and Mobile, Ala., and the metropolitan areas of Toronto, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Calgary, Chicago, Memphis, Detroit, Duluth, Minn./Superior, Wis., and Jackson, Miss., with connections to all points in North America. For more information about CN, visit the Company’s website at www.cn.ca.

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