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(Left to right) AfA's Brandon Fried; Thomas Kenny, deputy director, FAA; John Beckius, TSA.
The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has urged forwarders to advise customers of new screening rules which come into force on 31 October.
The Impracticable to Screen amendment ends on that date and will mean that cargo which is hard to screen using normal methods will not be able to travel by air, unless shippers are enrolled in one of the TSA’s authorised cargo security programmes.
“There will only be three options – join one of the programmes, use sea freight instead of ...
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David Fuller
June 07, 2023 at 3:32 pmHow would the TSA propose that a shipper “join” a Certified Cargo Screening Facility? It’s not a gym, it’s a service provider. What will become of the sniffer programs? Are these not working? Has something happened in the industry to drive us to this new level of overreach? From watching the news, I’d say mental instability of passengers and crew is the biggest threat currently to air travel.