To enhance inland rail supply chain visibility, the Port of Tacoma is testing a GPS tracking system that tracks intermodal containers from the time they leave waterfront terminals until they reach their destinations in the Midwest and Eastern United States. Believed to be the first developed for tracking containers inland on rail from a U.S. port, the system allows Port of Tacoma intermodal planners to … “illustrate when cargo is moving and when it is standing still.” The system uses Global Positioning System (GPS), wireless and internet technologies to provide actionable data related to location, speed, direction, starts, stops and other metrics.
