Bonner announces 'green lane' shipping.(green lane)(Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT))

BYLINE: Rick Eyerdam

Ocean cargo containers that travel a validated secure supply chain from a secure loading dock through a port that is part of the Container Security Initiative to a validated Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism shipper will use a "green lane" to clear U.S. Customs without inspection in the near future, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Robert C. Bonner.

In a interview with The Florida Shipper before a speech at a Customs supply-chain security conference in Miami, Bonner said that shippers, carriers, forwarders and warehouses that put into effect strict best practices and undergo Customs verification of …