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CSX Railroad Chooses the Flagship Technologies
Rail*AMS System
Apollo, PA, March 8, 2004
Lasse V. Syversen, President of Flagship Technologies,
a Bloksberg Inc company based in Maryland and with a development
and operations center in Apollo, PA, announced today that CSX
Technology, Inc. has signed an agreement to use Flagship's RAIL*AMS
Service. RAIL*AMS enables businesses to exchange business data
electronically with both the US Customs and Canadian Customs Automated
Manifest Systems for the purpose of clearing cargo moving between
the US and Canada by Rail.
CSX, the parent company of CSX Technology, operates
the largest rail network in the eastern United States. CSX provides
rail freight transportation over a network of more than 23,000
route miles in 23 states, the District of Columbia and two Canadian
provinces. CSX headquarters are in Jacksonville, Fla.
CSX Corporation continues to add efficiency
to its operations by using Flagship’s RAIL*AMS system. Eddie
Chesser, Supervisor of IT services, in discussing CSX’s
decision to use RAIL*AMS stated that he expects RAIL*AMS to provide
an efficient, predictable, and easy to use way for CSX to file
data to US Customs and Border Protection thus enhancing the free
flow of cargo across the border.
RAIL*AMS is based on proven technology backed
by experienced professionals with a long history of providing
fast, efficient, reliable software to the transportation industry.
Using RAIL*AMS will eliminate the costs associated with the manual
preparation and submission of paper manifests, and result in faster
clearance minimizing expensive delays at the border. RAIL*AMS
is designed to integrate easily with the rail carriers existing
documentation systems eliminating the need to re-key data for
submission to Customs and is available on Flagship’s Virtual
Host Service, or as licensed product for operation on the carrier’s
servers.
In making the announcement, Mr. Syversen noted
that CSX has demonstrated forward thinking in their efforts to
reduce paper based manifest submissions and further improve the
speed of cargo clearance at the border.
For more information contact:
Lasse V. Syversen
Flagship Technologies
http://www.flagship.com
Tel: 301-641-7908
Fax: 703-754-9694
Email: office@flagship.com
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