Layered Security Approach Balances Overseas Trade and Safety
Target suspect commercial shipments without clogging up ports.
Secretary Chertoff speaking on port security, noted the Container Security Initiative will expand to 58 ports by October 1, and handle over 85 percent of the trade coming into the United States. "We want to combine all of these systems to allow us to receive, process and act upon commercial information in a timely way so that we can target, in a very specific fashion, the suspect shipments without requiring us to materially slow up the supply chain or cause our ports of entry to become clogged up." Read More
