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Hong Kong
will Test U.S. Box Scanning
Date: August 1, 2007
By R.G.
Edmonson / Journal of Commerce
Customs and Border Protection announced that
Hong Kong has agreed to participate on a limited basis in the Secure
Freight Initiative.
Modern Terminals in the port will scan
containers for radiation and make x-ray images of their interiors as
part of the one-year anti-terror pilot program that Customs and the
Department of Homeland Security established under the SAFE Port
Act.
The terminal was one of two that tested the
Integrated Container Inspection System beginning in 2004, a
proof-of-concept project of integrated scanning
technology.
The Secure Freight Initiative is testing the
feasibility of scanning all containers at foreign locations before
they are loaded aboard ships bound for the United Ships. Testing
already is under way at Port Qasim, Pakistan; Puerto Cortes,
Honduras, and Southampton, Great Britain.
Customs officials said that testing should
begin by October.
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