GPA launches cargo-tracking project
The Georgia Ports Authority and the Shanghai International Port Group have launched a cargo tracking demonstration project.
With the use of a radio frequency identification (RFID) system, the GPA and the Shanghai will track cargo in real time from its point of origin to its final destination. Recently the two ports developed a demonstration project placing RFID tags, or E-Tags, on the container boxes of ships sailing from Shanghai to Savannah.
Since March 2008, weekly sailings have had about 150 tags per vessel from Shanghai to Savannah. Recently, the GPA has begun sending containers with E-tags from Savannah to Shanghai, making it a two-way operation.
The ports are “improving the flow of trade and security through better technology. This program will also have a big impact on U.S. security and that of our trading partners,” said Steve Green, chairman of the GPA board of directors.