CN has resumed service on its Kamloops-Vancouver corridor, the Canadian railway said on Monday, restoring a critical rail link to the Port of Vancouver.

"CN crews will continue to monitor both the rail infrastructure as well as the terrain over the coming days and weeks to come," the railway said in a statement.

The resumption of CN's Kamloops-Vancouver service should give the Port of Vancouver much-needed relief from a massive backlog of rail shipments and vessels. As of Monday morning, 53 vessels, including six container ships, were waiting to berth — a level of congestion that has persisted for more than a week.

CN has been sharing Canadian Pacific's (NYSE:CP) Kamloops-Vancouver line, which resumed operations two weeks ago. But the traffic running through has been extremely limited. 

The volume of containers leaving Vancouver by rail remains down by about two-thirds. To learn more about FreightWaves SONAR, click here.

The volume of containers coming out of Vancouver via rail has been slowly recovering. As of Sunday, the outbound container volume from Vancouver stood at about 37% of its pre-disruption level, according to FreightWaves' SONAR platform. 

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