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2004-12-13 Arabia

US officers to screen US-bound cargo from Dubai

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Posted by Steve White 2004-12-13 12:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 A nice effort, but what about ports (and there are many more) that send a larger number of containers to the U.S.?

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-12-13 10:36:10 AM|| 2004-12-13 10:36:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Patience, BaR. Necessarily limited resources means they start with the most likely source of problems. Starting January 2002, U.S. Customs inspectors were stationed at the twenty highest risk ports, such as Hong Kong, those which ship the most to the U.S. These top 20 ports handle some 70% of the shipments arriving in the U.S. There is a nice overview from the Homeland Security head for international affairs of the situation as of June this year. It looks to me that, with Dubai port getting ready to go on-line, Homeland Security is starting in on the second tier. And, the Office of Management & Budget provides a look forward for 2005 on all the Homeland Security initiatives, which I found quite interesting.

Actually, it looks like Bush is applying that Harvard MBA training quite competently to the issues surrounding homeland security, and quietly making, to me, astounding progress.

Posted by trailing wife 2004-12-13 12:41:58 PM|| 2004-12-13 12:41:58 PM|| Front Page Top