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Effective March 1, 2012, CGR will not accept cars without ISO/PAS 17712 seals. Any seals that CGR provides on non-compliant cars will be charged back to the freight bill party. Further any infraction imposed on the CGR by U.S. Customs with regards to the wrong seal types, will be the responsibility of the freight bill [...]
CG Railway aims to take its NAFTA-trade-driven rail ferry service to the next level by Katie Berk, Assistant Editor, Progressive Railroading, May 12, 2010 In the late 1990s, International Shipholding Corp. (ISC) officials had no model to follow as they began to develop what they believed would be the only rail-ferry service operating between the [...]
On January 2, 2008 U.S. Customs and Border Protection published its Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) regarding 10 + 2 in the Federal Register. This program fulfills the mandate of U.S. Congress in the SAFE Port Act to obtain more data elements prior to the arrival of shipments. The Importer Security Filing (ISF) and [...]
Short sea shipping initiatives are largely still on the drawing board for the US freight transportation markets. While the EU transported an estimated 1.9 billion tons last year by short sea shipping – more than 60% of its total maritime freight – the US has continued to rely heavily on land-based truck, rail and container [...]