Transportation

New cottage industry: Helping shippers qualify for C-TPAT
Securing cargo containers is a massive — and lucrative — undertaking, and more and more companies want to participate, but you should see the paper work involved; there is thus a new industry emerging, one aiming to help large and small companies apply for DHS C-TPAT
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Border-security-only bill falls victim to collapse of comprehensive immigration bill
Last Friday the compromise immigration bill was pulled because Republicans and Democrats could not agree over how many amendments would be allowed to come to the floor for a vote; some senators tried to salvage from the impasse a border-security-only bill, but it failed to garner many votes
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Smarte Carte kiosks give passengers new alternative for TSA-banned items
Company to provide self-service mail kiosks to passengers who pass through security and do not want to leave items behind that have been declared by TSA as unsafe
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OSI shows new navigation solutions
By 2010 more than 30,000 commercial ships will be required to deploy Simplified Voyage Data Recorder (S-VDR); OSI is a leading developer of this and other navigational technologies for the civilian and military markets
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Former DHS IG calls on Congress to kill Hutchison Bahamas deal
The debate over assigning responsibility for scanning U.S.-bound containers for nuclear materials to a Hong Kong company with close ties to China is intensifying, with a former DHS IG calling on Congress to kill the deal
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U.S. wants to place more U.S. customs agents in Chinese ports
There are U.S. customs inspectors in two Chinese ports, but with the volume of trade with China growing, the U.S. wants inspectors to be present at additional ports
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III. Combining national ID with regularization of illegal immigrant
There may be an intended consequence to the ID project: It may help a future U.K. government address more directly the growing problem of illegal immigration
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Variations on a theme: Major immigration bills currently debated
The debate over illegal immigration intensifies, and here is a brief outline of the main positions in the debate
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House committee defeats Democrat-sponsored container security measure
Democratic minority in the House Homeland Security Committee wanted a strict timetable for implementing freight container security measure, but Republican majority defeats proposal
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Scanners to be used at U.K. rail stations
If metal detectors and explosive scanners are good enough for airports, they should also be useful in protecting ground transportation, say U.K. railroad authorities
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Calls for banning shipment of Canadian garbage into U.S.
Hundreds of trucks every day haul garbage from Canada for burial in Michigan landfills; the trouble is that these trucks are not thoroughly searched, and two senators now say this is too risky to be allowed to continue
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X-rays go black at Nashville International Airport
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DHS IG slams Unisys for shoddy performance on $1 billion TSA contract
Few government programs were as thoroughly botched as Unisys’ handling of a 2002 $1 billion TSA airport communication contract; the DHS IG has just completed his report on this sorry saga, and Unisys does not look any better for it; what does not help, at least on the PR front, is the fact that on-his-way-to-jail Jack Abramoff helped Unisys get the contract in the first place
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Gerry Adams removed from terrorist watch list
Six congressmen with Irish constituencies managed to have Sinn Fein leaders’ name removed from watch list; other former IRA operatives are not so lucky
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Chertoff: Private shippers who implement container safety measures would benefit
Chertoff highlights benefits to shippers from adopting stricter container safety measures
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