Within the Department of Homeland Security DHS, the Transportation Security Administration TSA is responsible for ensuring the security of commercial aviation, including the transportation of cargo by air. To evaluate the status of TSA's efforts to secure domestic air cargo, this paper examines the extent to which TSA used a...
A private sector, third-party verification process has been successful in several government policy initiatives. This white paper proposes a similar solution to reduce the risk that terrorists will exploit legitimate trade and the intermodal container to attack the United States using a weapon of mass destruction. By embedding a private...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection CBP has in place two programs to help address the threat posed by terrorists smuggling weapons of mass destruction WMD into the United States: the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) and the Container Security Initiative CSI. In July 2003, GAO reported that these programs had...
This report addresses the following issues: what benefits do U.S. Customs and Border Protection CBP provide to Customs-Trade Partnership against Terrorism (C-TPAT) members? Before providing benefits, what approach does CBP take to determine C-TPAT members' eligibility for them? After providing benefits, how does CBP verify that members have implemented their...
The air cargo system is a complex, multi-faceted network that handles a vast amount of freight, packages, and mail carried aboard passenger and all-cargo aircraft. The air cargo system is vulnerable to several security threats including potential plots to place explosives aboard aircraft; illegal shipments of hazardous materials; criminal activities...
It has been seen that what is good for the nation’s security in the post-9/11 era might turn out to be equally beneficial to global supply chains. Business executives who complain about the cost and burden of new security measures in the post-9/11 era ought to think again. Most companies...
Progress is Being Made, Funding is Necessary to Program's Success WASHINGTON -- Despite progress being made in implementing the Certified Cargo Screener Program CCSP, significant challenges remain in future success due to lack of funding, according to executive director of the Airforwarders Association AfA in testimony before the...
FORT WORTH, Texas, July 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Airlines Cargo AA Cargo secured the St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre as one of the first customers for its newly launched cargo service from Moscow, Russia. With the unique transportation needs of the internationally renowned production company, AA Cargo was retained to...
AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-C1997-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The US Transportation Security Administration TSA has certified three new canine teams which will work to detect explosives in the air cargo facilities at Virginia's Dulles International Airport. These new teams have been certified in their local environment and are...
The Transportation Security AdministrationTSA today announced the certification of three new TSA canine teams toenhance explosives detection capabilities at Virginia's DullesInternational Airport air cargo facilities. The Dulles teams began training in January and graduated after a 10-weektraining course at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio. The teams havecertified in their...
Abu Dhabi Customs Will Utilize AS&E's Full Range of Cargo Inspection Products for Integrated Border Security BILLERICA, Mass. -- American Science and Engineering, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASEI) (AS&E([R])), a leader in X-ray detection technology, announced today that the Company has received a $55.1 million contract from Abu Dhabi Customs....
BEIJING, July 1 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- The first batch of imported food ( http://www.tootoo.com/w-Food_Beverage/ ) to arrive in China in preparation for the Olympic Games has arrived. The 24.269 tons of headless trout arrived at the Yangshan port in Shanghai on June 18. To ensure the smooth entry of...
Ray Fernandez, Sealock Security Systems' VicePresident of Sales, has announced that three models of its signatureSealock Hybrid Devices have received the designation of QualifiedAnti-Terrorism Technology and have been placed on the Department ofHomeland Security's Approved Product List. This designation satisfies thecriteria set forth in Section 441b of the SAFETY Act,...
Piracy--the sort involving eye patches and parrots, not folks who sell bootleg DVDs--has been on the upswing in recent years. Even in the digital age, the stuff we buy travels mostly by boat, and oil is still pumped at vulnerable offshore oil platforms. According to the International Relations...
THE TRANSPORTATION security Administration warns that "incidents of female terrorists hiding explosives in sensitive areas are on the rise all over the world." By "sensitive areas," the TSA does not mean airplane cockpits or cargo holds; it means breasts and vaginas. Still, that does not explain why TSA...
SAO PAULO, Brazil, June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ULTRAPAR PARTICIPACOES S.A. (BOVESPA: UGPA4; NYSE: UGP), a company engaged in fuels distribution (Ultragaz/Ipiranga), production of chemicals Oxiteno, and providing integrated logistics solutions for special bulk cargo Ultracargo, hereby informs that the 2007 Form 20-F annual report was filed today with the...
The Transportation Security AdministrationTSA has named Kevin McCarthy as the federal security director for MemphisInternational Airport. McCarthy joined TSA in July 2006 as federal security director for LouisArmstrong New Orleans International Airport. There he helped coordinate therebuilding of the TSA workforce and operations at the airport in theaftermath of Hurricane...
WASHINGTON -- Martin, Blanck & Associates, a federal health services consulting firm based in Falls Church, Virginia has announced the addition of Keith Moore, Esq, as partner. Prior to his arrival at Martin, Blanck, Mr. Moore served in several senior positions in the Department of Homeland Security's Transportation...
Business News IN BRIEF *Four airlines have agreed to pay $504m in fines to settle claims they conspired to fleece consumers by driving up cargo shipping prices. Air France-KLM will pay $350m of the settlement and the rest will be paid by Cathay Pacific Airways, Martinair Holland...
BRUSSELS AFP — US consumers could be hit hard by new security laws demanding that all cargo containers bound for the United States be scanned for radiation or weapons, a senior US customs official said Tuesday. The measures, which Congress has demanded must enter force in 2012, will...
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