Most Read
Most E-mailed
E-mail Article
Print Article2. Doors-plus : There is no difference between doors-plus and doors-only with respect to access; but the GPS function serves the tracing requirement specified in the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007.
3. Scanning : At this stage, if not for CBP canines, scanning wouldn't do much either. It disrupts our trade flows and our trading partners simply don't like it. Sometimes it works, but most of the times it doesn't. It certainly does not work for detecting shielded enriched uranium, and even if it worked in our Container Security Initiative (CSI) ports--there are 58 of them--the scanned container could be subsequently accessed if it went through a transshipment port.
4. Chain-of-custody smart containers : What does work--and is just beginning to be used--is in-container satellite and satellite/cellular systems that have unique detection and environmental sensors. As stated above, these employ the chain-of-custody process and can communicate in real-time (or close to real-time) with the user and/or to government authorities.
By Jim Giermanski, Chairman, Powers Global Holdings Inc.
<<Reed Business Information. All Rights Reserved. -- 11/06/2009>>
