In November, the U.S. government introduced air cargo security legislation, but it has not yet been brought up for vote.
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Last October, the discovery of parcel bombs being sent from Yemen to synagogues in the U.S. altered the view of cargo security indelibly.
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All cargo movement is managed via fully automated, computerized systems, which ensure the accuracy, efficiency, and security of our cargo handling processes.
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Because you made some reference to the security of cargo flights and so forth.
In the decade through 2002, armed robbers staged at least 10 major heists on the tarmacs of European airports, and robbers who didn't pull guns executed many more thefts of cash, diamonds and other valuable cargo from high-security areas, according to airport-security specialists.
Following Sept. 11 the airlines imposed a security surcharge on cargo averaging 15 cents per kilo.
And it has given the maritime sector a global framework for security that air cargo needs now.
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After Sept. 11, the airlines imposed a security surcharge on cargo that averages 15 cents a kilo.
Federal prosecutors allege in the latest round of arrests that the group moved luggage through security and into cargo holds on airplanes bound for Miami, Orlando, Newark and elsewhere.
These funds will be used to sustain the current cap level of 46, 000 full time screening personnel, and for explosive detection systems, security enforcement, cargo inspections, Federal Air Marshals, and other TSA activities.
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Another U.S. administration official said the ship's cargo was bound for Zimbabwe's security forces.
The thieves appeared to have detailed information about both the cargo and operations at Brussels Airport, said aviation security specialists, and likely had help from people at the airport.
The ISPS includes requirements for ports to develop security plans and appoint security officers, to monitor people with access to cargo, and for ships to show the last ten ports they have called.
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Results released in May 2011 for the Unisys Security Index, a semi-annual survey of consumer opinion on multiple dimensions of security, showed that 56 percent of Americans saw cargo transported by air, sea or land as extremely or very vulnerable to malicious or terrorist attack.
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In June 2011, the U.K. ordered UPS to temporarily stop moving air cargo through some of its U.K. facilities because of security concerns.
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For the moment, though, European and American security experts are more interested in another matter: what cargo a Russian vessel, Arctic Sea, was carrying when it vanished in closely monitored European waters, why a journalist who alerted the world to its disappearance had to flee Russia and why Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, paid an urgent and secret visit to Moscow just a few days later.
But wait times could lengthen if millions of dollars in mandated spending cuts force the Transportation Security Administration to trim the number of agents that screen passengers and cargo for bombs, guns and other prohibited items.
He founded and runs Air Serv, which provides ticket checkers, airplane cleaners and cargo handlers for airlines at 27 U.S. airports. (Airport security is now overseen by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.) Argenbright is also chief executive of SecurAmerica, a three-year-old company that provides security guards for corporate campuses and office buildings.
He founded and runs Air Serv, which provides ticket checkers, airplane cleaners and cargo handlers for airlines at 27 U.S. airports. (Airport security is now overseen by the Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration.) Argenbright is also chief executive of SecurAmerica, a three-year-old company that provides security guards for corporate campuses and office buildings.
Passengers may be thoroughly checked, but behind-the-scenes security is slack or non-existent, with inconsistent screening of mail, cargo and baggage, and an inadequate police presence, it said.
The Department of Homeland Security is also taking steps to enhance the safety of air travel, including additional cargo screening.
Air cargo costs have risen nearly 7 cents to an average of 60 cents per pound because of higher security costs.
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