The railroad is tackling one of the major pain points at the Atlanta-area terminal after congestion had gotten so bad in recent years that fleets would pay drivers extra just to go into the facility.
Record container traffic between Hamburg and the US combined with increasing imports from China to nudge throughput at Europe’s third-largest port back into the black.
The customs pre-arrival security and safety program is being implemented in three steps, starting with ocean and inland waterway carriers in June.