Norfolk Southern Railway Chooses the Flagship Rail*AMS System

Apollo, PA, July 30, 2004

Lasse V. Syversen, President of Bloksberg Inc Flagship a company based in Maryland and with a development and operations center in Apollo, PA, announced today that Norfolk Southern Railway has signed an agreement to use their Flagship 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.

Norfolk Southern Railway, based in Norfolk, VA is one of the nation's premier transportation companies. Its Norfolk Southern Railway subsidiary operates 21,500 route miles in 22 states, the District of Columbia and Ontario, serving every major container port in the eastern United States and providing superior connections to western rail carriers. NS operates the most extensive intermodal network in the East and is the nation's largest rail carrier of automotive parts and finished vehicles.

Norfolk Southern Railway continues to add efficiency to its operations by using Flagship’s RAIL*AMS system. Wes B. Alexander, Director Agency Opns, in discussing Norfolk Southern’s decision to use RAIL*AMS stated that he expects RAIL*AMS to provide an efficient, predictable, and easy to use way for Norfolk Southern 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 Norfolk Southern 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
Bloksberg Inc - Flagship
http://www.flagship.com
Tel: 301-641-7908
Fax: 703-754-9694
Email: office@flagship.com