The common sense answer is to find out if there are any weapons of mass destruction (WMD) contained in an inbound container set to detonate in the United States. Conceptually, it simply makes sense to ...

Dubai, Oct 06th, 2010 (WAM)--Dubai Customs launched its new firstling system of the radioactive scanning for mobile vehicles along with launching the latest system of its kind worldwide for detecting ...

According to a recent report by the Government Accountability Office, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection has not been making progress under the 9/11 Commission Act, which requires 100 percent of U ...

U.S. importers have bought themselves another two years before they must implement a container-scanning rule that they believe should be scrapped altogether. Mandated by the SAFE Port Act of 2006, the ...

The United States has again delayed its demand that all U.S.-bound maritime cargo containers undergo 100 percent scanning, and a group of industry trade bodies are entreating Congress to repeal the ...

Jena Baker McNeill is a homeland security policy analyst. The path towards 100 percent scanning of cargo containers has hit yet another stumbling block. A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) ...

For better or worse, the screening for explosives of all air cargo moving on passenger aircraft is now a reality. Carriers complained loudly when the Transportation Security Administration rule was ...

Five years after Congress set a deadline for requiring all U.S.-bound shipping containers to be X-rayed overseas for nuclear weapons, customs officials have all but given up on the goal. Customs and ...

Innovative new ontainer scanning technology is being developed for the CORE (Consistently Optimized REsilient Secure Global Supply-Chains) European Research Project by Smiths Detection, a leader in ...