CN Offers Integrated Electronic Process for Rail Intermodal Shipments Under Canada's Customs Self-Assessment Program.Business Editors TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 11, 2002 Canadian National (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CNI) (TSX:CNR) announced today it is offering shippers a fully-integrated electronic process to manage rail intermodal shipments under Canada's Customs Self-Assessment Program (CSA (1) (Canadian Standards Association, Toronto, Ontario, www.csa.ca) A standards-defining organization founded in 1919. It is involved in many industries, including electronics, communications and information technology. ). This means CN's retail intermodal customers, as well as third-party shippers, can benefit from the railway's automated process for CSA-approved companies importing goods into Canada. CN's electronic process also provides a paperless rail intermodal option to CSA importers now using highway carriers. CN is designated as a low-risk carrier under CSA, a new Canada Customs and Revenue Agency Canada Customs and Revenue Agency was a department of the government of Canada. It split up into:
CSA importers using CN Intermodal services will benefit from reduced Electronic Data Interchange See EDI. (application, communications) electronic data interchange - (EDI) The exchange of standardised document forms between computer systems for business use. EDI is part of electronic commerce. (EDI) requirements. In addition, these importers will be able to file a consolidated record of imports with the CCRA, instead of individual customs entries. The key to CN's CSA program is the customer's EDI bill of lading A document signed by a carrier (a transporter of goods) or the carrier's representative and issued to a consignor (the shipper of goods) that evidences the receipt of goods for shipment to a specified designation and person. at the point of origin, which activates the CSA "triggers" on the electronic manifests that CN sends to Canada Customs. William Berry, CN's vice-president, intermodal, said: "CN is pleased to have developed a fully electronic, end-to-end CSA process for the rail intermodal market. It's another example of how we're making it easier for customers to do business with CN." To find out more about how this new process can help your business, please contact CN's Customs Manager at 204-934-8332 or 1-800-267-9779. Canadian National Railway Company Canadian National Railway Company (NYSE: CNI, TSX: CNR) is a Canadian rail transportation company that operates the Canadian National Railway. It was created in December, 1918 as a Crown corporation of the Government of Canada to nationalize several bankrupt rail systems spans Canada and mid-America, from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to the Gulf of Mexico Noun 1. Gulf of Mexico - an arm of the Atlantic to the south of the United States and to the east of Mexico Golfo de Mexico Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean - the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east , serving the ports of Vancouver, Prince Rupert, B.C., Montreal, Halifax, New Orleans, and Mobile, Ala., and the key cities of Toronto, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Duluth, Minn./Superior, Wis., Green Bay, Wis., Minneapolis/St. Paul, Memphis, St. Louis, and Jackson, Miss., with connections to all points in North America. |
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