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CN files shelf prospectus for C$3.0
billion of debt securities
MONTREAL,
Dec. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - CN (TSX:
CNR) (NYSE: CNI) today filed a final shelf prospectus with Canadian
securities regulators and a registration statement with the United
States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), providing for the
issuance by CN of up to C$3.0 billion
of debt securities in Canadian and U.S. markets over the next 25
months.
CN expects to use net proceeds from the sale of
debt securities under the shelf prospectus for general corporate
purposes, including the redemption and refinancing of outstanding
debt, share repurchases, acquisitions, and other business
opportunities.
A registration statement related to these debt
securities has been filed with the SEC; however, it is not yet
effective. Securities may not be sold, nor may offers to buy be
accepted, before the registration statement becomes effective. This
press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the
solicitation of an offer to buy the securities, nor shall there be
any sale of the securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer,
solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or
qualification under the securities laws of such jurisdiction.
A copy of the final shelf prospectus will be
available on the Canadian Securities Administrators' web site,
www.sedar.com, or on the SEC's website, www.sec.gov. It may also be
obtained from the Corporate Secretary, Canadian National Railway
Company, 935 de La Gauchetière Street West, Montreal, Que., H3B 2M9 (telephone:
514-399-7091).
CN transports approximately 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
spanning Canada and mid-America.
CN - Canadian National Railway Company, along with its operating
railway subsidiaries -- serves the cities and ports of Vancouver, 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.
SOURCE CN