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Yesterday, transportation services provider Swift Transportation announced a new container-on-flat-car (COFC) intermodal service to and from Mexico with rail partner Kansas City Southern and its Kansas City Southern de México S.A. de C.V. subsidiary.

The COFC service will be offered between the United States and northeastern and central Mexico, and the Guadalajara and Mexico City areas. Swift owns more than 6,000 53-foot containers featuring GPS satellite tracking systems. The company also plans to continue to offering its trailer-on-flat car (TOFC) services to and from Mexico.

The COFC and TOFC intermodal services complement Swift’s over-the-road cross-border business, which is operated in conjunction with truckload carrier subsidiary Trans-Mex L.L.C., company officials said in a prepared statement.

The new container service to and from Mexico “completes our COFC geographic footprint and permits Swift to capitalize on considerable advantages in the cross-border segment,” said Swift President Richard Stocking.