S.C. inland port transitions to automated gates

The South Carolina Ports Authority’s inland port in Greer today is switching to an automated gate system for trucks entering and leaving the facility.    The South Carolina Ports Authority’s inland port in Greer is switching Monday to an automated gate system for trucks entering and leaving the facility. Officials are using the term “advance gate” to refer to the system.
   All truck transactions – including empty and chassis moves – will require trucking companies to obtain a gate code in advance and provide it to their drayage driver, the port authority said in a service advisory. 
   Trucking companies create the gate codes through GO!Port, a web-based application and the driver enters the code on in a kiosk erected at each lane. Each equipment move requires a gate code, so a driver entering with an empty container and picking up a loaded container will need two gate codes.
   The SCPA plans to roll out the advance gate system at its marine terminals in Charleston later this year.
   Read more about SCPA’s new gate system and the Port of Charleston’s cargo and infrastructure expansion in the May magazine feature “The Money Chase,” as well as the sidebar about the Greer success story, titled “Outsize growth for inland port.”