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TWIC * USA - Truckers, port workers say new identification credential no treat
Philadelphia,PA,USA -The Cherry Hill Courier Post (Cherry Hill,NJ), by EILEEN STILWELL -November 2, 2008: -- Casper has a vision for the Delaware River ports come Dec. 30... "I see fruit rotting on the docks, ships waiting to be loaded, prices sky high in the supermarkets, tractor trailers backed up onto roadways," said Casper, manager of DelMonte Fresh Produce, which operates a busy fruit terminal at the Broadway marine terminal in Camden... "It'll be the perfect storm," Casper promised about the start date for a mandatory government identification program that he predicts will paralyze an already tanked economy... About one-third of an estimated 1.2 million seaport workers in the nation who are required to obtain the new credential -- a Transportation Workers Identification Credential (TWIC) -- from the federal Transportation Security Administration have received them, said Leslie Holoweiko, spokeswoman for Lockheed Martin, which is managing the card program... (Photo by JOHN ZIOMEK/Courier Post - John Devenney holds up his Transportation Workers Identification Credential at the registration center next to Broadway Terminal in Camden)Labels: TWIC
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