![[Valid Atom 1.0]](valid-atom.png "Validate my Atom 1.0 feed")
Security - Hong Kong - Port project hardens container security
Hong Kong,China -The Wall Street Journal, by Alex Ortolani and Robert Block -July 29, 2005: -- How do you keep a terrorist from inserting a weapon such as a radiation-filled "dirty bomb" into one of the seven million-plus shipping containers that arrive at U.S. ports every year?... That question has dogged policy makers, customs agents and counterterrorism experts ever since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks... At the offices of Modern Terminals in Kwai Chung, four flat-screen monitors depict the scanning operations. X-ray-like images of the passing containers pop up on the screens and are stored on a computer server. The tracking code on each container is also recorded. The computer files can be reviewed immediately by local officials or, conceivably, passed on so that customs agents in Rotterdam, New York or Los Angeles could use them to help identify suspicious cargo before it gets loaded onto a ship, or at any point along its journey. Such a database could prove invaluable if a container that had originated in Hong Kong later was involved in terrorism...
posted by Unknown @ 11:43 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home