US ports and intermodal players are geared up to handle volume surges
US container gateways and the inland intermodal chain have handled surging traffic without disruption, providing ...
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By Alex Lennane
In what appears to be a healthy dose of commonsense at the US Department of Homeland Security, the plan for all containers from overseas to be scanned before departure has been shelved again, for two years.
The Secretary wrote in a leaked letter: “I must report, in all candour, that DHS’s ability to fully comply with this unfunded mandate of 100% scanning, even in the long term, is highly improbable, hugely expensive and, in our judgment, not the best use of ...
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