MEXICO CITY: Certain shippers tapping southbound U.S.-Mexico intermodal services offered by Schneider National won’t have to wait on protracted clearance processes at the border, thanks to new streamlined customs processes announced.
Working with Mexico’s food and drug administration, Schneider Intermodal will be offering streamlined cross-border clearance and inspection service for select commodities at Kansas City Southern Railway’s Puerta Mexico Intermodal Terminal in Toluca, 40 miles west of Mexico City.
Effective immediately, shippers can now move peat moss, pet food, soy bean flour and cream substitutes across the border with inspections in Mexico instead of at processing points on the border, Schneider announced.
The initial four commodities are part of a pilot program, the company said, and additional commodities are expected to be added. Further details on what commodities will be included in that next round, however, were not divulged.
“Any time a process can be streamlined, the customer benefits,” Schneider’s Bernardo Rodarte, vice president of the company’s Mexico division, said in a statement. “This seamless border crossing saves time and is a more cost-effective alternative since there are fewer handoffs during the move.”
The Schneider customs pilot is only being offered at Kansas City Southern’s Puerta Mexico terminal in Toluca. KCS bought the terminal roughly five years ago and runs trains to it from the Pacific Ocean container port of Lazaro Cardenas. In 2012, TMX service connected the KCS facilities at Puerta Mexico, San Luis Potos and Salinas Victoria, Mexico, to Norfolk Southern Railway intermodal hubs in Atlanta, Georgia and Charlotte, North Carolina.
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