Security

Monday, May 13, 2013

   Transportation Worker Identification Credentials, or TWIC cards, were described as a “joke” during hearings before the U.S. House of Representative’s Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee last week.    The hearings came as the Government Accountability Office issued a report that said  11 years after initiation of the program the Department of Homeland Security “has not demonstrated how, if at all, TWIC will improve maritime security.”    G...

Wednesday, May 01, 2013

   Raytheon, a major international defense and aerospace company, will pay $8 million in civil penalties and remedial expenditures to resolve hundreds of alleged violations of U.S. export regulations designed to protect sensitive technology from falling in the hands of enemies.    The State Department's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, which oversees exports of military goods, said Raytheon violated the Arms Export Control Act and the International Traffic in Arms Regulatio...

Monday, April 29, 2013

   Massive changes to the U.S. export control regime are beginning to be made by the Obama administration, but the automatic budget cuts that kicked in March 1 are limiting the Bureau of Industry and Security's ability to educate shippers about the new rules and how to follow them, Eric Hirschhorn, undersecretary for industry and security at the Department of Commerce, said.    Speaking last week during a webinar produced by American Shipper, the head of BIS said the agency has ...

Thursday, April 25, 2013

   The U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security said Computerlinks FZCO of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, has agreed to pay a $2.8 million civil penalty following allegations that it committed three violations of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR).    The violations are related to the transfer to Syria of devices designed to monitor and control Internet traffic. In addition to the civil penalty, which is the statutory maximum, the company has agreed to sub...

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

   Representatives from U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Federal Republic of Nigeria have signed a Customs Mutual Assistance Agreement (CMAA), which allows for better cooperation between the two nations when investigating and preventing customs offenses.    In addition to helping stop smuggling and prevent customs fraud, the agreement will help both parties accurately assess customs duties. U.S. Customs authorities, according to officials, will also be able to increase borde...

Monday, April 22, 2013

   Shippers should expect delays receiving air cargo moving through major airports in Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York after the U.S. Department of Transportation and its Federal Aviation Administration on Sunday began to furlough air traffic controllers as promised to make good on forced budget cuts that hit the entire government in March.        Critics said the Obama administration is using the reductions in air traffic control hours to...

Thursday, April 18, 2013

   The transition period of new EU air security rules regarding known consignors ends April 29, and DHL is among the carriers that have been adding extra security programs to help shippers meet the new rules.    Shipments from parties not identified as known consignors by the EU have to submit to extra screening of their goods before shipment.    According to data released by DB Schenker last month, only a small number of air freight shippers the company works with have bee...

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

   Concern about whether the Transportation Security Administration will be able to efficiently handle the renewal of large numbers of Transportation Worker Identification Credentials (TWIC) expiring this year was raised Tuesday by Rep. Janice Hahn, D-Calif., at a hearing of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee's Coast Guard and maritime transport subcommittee.    “I don’t know if I am misinformed, but I was told that we actually have no plan moving forward ...

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

   The U.S. Commerce and State departments have proposed a number of amendments  to two export control guidelines, the Export Administration Regulations and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, to redefine the export of aircraft and associated munitions items as well as gas turbine engines.    This is the first set in a series of final rules redefining the regulation of commercial items with military application, according to a press release. The State Department pegs ...

Wednesday, April 03, 2013

   Ceres Marine Terminals has appointed Douglas Wolfe to vice president.    He was formerly port manager in the Port of Baltimore and is a veteran of Ceres Marine Terminals in Baltimore for more than 25 years. Wolfe started in the maritime industry in 1976 and worked for Moore McCormack/U.S. Lines until 1987 when he was hired by Ceres as a terminal superintendent.    The maritime security firm AdvanFort Co. has named Dimitrios Angelopoulos, a retired Hellenic Navy submarine ...

Friday, March 22, 2013

   Local government and industry officials at three ports on the opposite end of the spectrum in California are lobbying members of Congress and U.S. Customs to adjust how the agency is implementing forced budget cuts because reductions in manpower to clear cargo are beginning to harm the maritime industry, with potential losses of millions of dollars per day just around the corner.     Port stakeholders say their unique circumstances mean that Customs and Border Protection's ini...

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

U.S. Customs seeks to prevent C-TPAT disclosures.    U.S. Customs and Border Protection wants to exempt from disclosure under the Privacy Act certain information it collects and maintains about companies that participate in the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism, a voluntary supply chain security program.    In a notice of proposed rulemaking published in the Federal Register last Wednesday, CBP said it needed to bypass the law's disclosure requirements with regard to C-TPAT...

Monday, March 18, 2013

   Building on the success of an ocean-import security pilot designed to increase trade efficiency, the United States and Canada on Thursday reached an agreement in principle to move ahead with a trial program for pre-inspecting U.S.-bound trucks in Canada instead of at the border.       The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Canada's Ministry of Public Safety are teaming up on cargo security and host of other border management projects as part of the Beyond...

Wednesday, March 06, 2013

   The European Commission has delayed implementation of its known consignor rule, a new security law for shippers using air cargo out of Europe, from March 25 to April 29.    Once the rule takes effect, only companies listed as known consignors can designate their air freight as secure.    Status can be achieved by training employees about security in the supply chain and by enhancing other security practices. Firms that don’t submit to the new guidelines will see the...

Wednesday, March 06, 2013

   Three Philippine nationals were convicted Monday in Los Angeles of illegally importing military grade weapons into the United States after being caught in a sting operation that was conducted in the Philippines, the Justice Department said.    Sergio Syjuco, 26; Cesar Ubaldo, 27; and Arjyl Revereza, 26, were convicted after a four-week trial by a federal jury in U.S. District Court in the Central District of California of conspiring to illegally import the weapons into the United S...

Tuesday, March 05, 2013

   U.S. Customs is using plans for how to resume business in the wake of a natural or man-made disaster as a guideline for dealing with the forced budget cuts that went into effect March 1, the agency said in a memo over the weekend outlining how it will try to minimize the impact of the sequester process.    Officials reiterated that they are eliminating overtime work and personnel will begin to to lose a day per pay period in unpaid leave in mid-April. Their strategy redirects...

Thursday, February 21, 2013

   Secure Shipper, a new Web-based exchange of U.S. Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism and Europe's Authorized Economic Operator compliant logistics companies, is striving to double its worldwide membership in 2013.    Last month, Secure Shipper  added Rotterdam-based Broekman Group to its membership, and it’s now hoping for at least 13 additional new members in 2013.    The relatively new organization serves as a clearinghouse for overseas partners, giving U....

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

   The global trade management solutions provider Amber Road said Tuesday the semiconductor manufacturer Vishay Intertechnology has deployed its system to manage compliance risk.    Specifically, Vishay is using Amber Road’s Restricted Party Screening (RPS) On-Demand solution, integrated with its SAP enterprise resource planning system (ERP).    The RPS On-Demand solution allows Vishay to screen thousands of customers and vendors across the Americas, Eur...

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

   The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is preparing for the worst with the blunt tool of across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration, which is scheduled to kick in March 1 unless Congress acts to replace it with a more measured deficit-reduction package.    In testimony last Thursday before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the automatic budget cuts resulting from the 2011 debt-ceiling agreement would diminish border ...

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

U.S.-EU fully implement trusted trader reciprocity.    U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently announced that mutual recognition between its Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism program and the European Union's Authorized Economic Operator program was fully implemented Jan. 31.    The arrangement is designed to give expedited security status to shippers that belong to one of the trusted shipper programs and have demonstrated to local authorities that they have effective se...

Friday, February 08, 2013

   U.S. Customs and Border Protection has cancelled the Trade Support Network's plenary session scheduled for Feb. 26-28 in Baltimore, according to an e-mail from the ACE Business Office to TSN members.    No reason for the cancellation was given in the message and there was no mention of alternative dates in the future, but a spokeswoman said the agency had difficulty securing a venue.    The TSN is a group of about 300 trade compliance professionals divided into ...

Friday, February 08, 2013

   To make air cargo more secure, stakeholders need to achieve closer cooperation and current governmental regulations must be harmonized to prevent redundancies, according to the International Air Transport Association’s Chief Executive Officer Tony Tyler.    In a speech during the organization’s Secure Freight Forum in Geneva, Tyler, who was pushing the organization’s Secure Freight program, also called for cooperation between nations and a long-term commitment among all ...

Thursday, February 07, 2013

   After a series of delays, the Port of Stockton last week terminated the concession agreement with a private company tasked with managing, marketing and operating a new barge service to move containers between the port and Oakland.    The Stockton port authority will assume leadership and direct operational control of the service with a target start date of early spring, Mark Tollini, deputy port director for trade and operations, said in a phone interview.    "It wa...

Monday, February 04, 2013

   The Japanese government is considering allowing foreign security contractors aboard Japanese-flagged vessels to carry firearms to combat piracy in the waters off East Africa, according to a report Monday in the Japan Times .    Under the bill, drafted by the nation’s Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry, armed guards would be permitted to fire warning shots to deter pirates. Currently, vessels registered in Japan are prohibited from carrying such armed guards.  ...

Friday, January 18, 2013

   The U.S. Commerce Department said a North Wales, Pa. man was sentenced Thursday to 42 months in jail on five counts of violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).    Timothy Gormley, 52, was employed by Amplifier Research in Souderton, Pa., a manufacturer and supplier of microwave amplifiers with both domestic and overseas customers. On Nov. 30, 2011, Commerce’s Office of Export Enforcement received a voluntary self-disclosure from Amplifier Research.  &...

Thursday, January 17, 2013

   Piracy on the world's seas has reached a five-year low, with 297 ships attacked in 2012, compared with 439 in 2011 , the International Chamber of Commerce's International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said Wednesday.    Worldwide figures were brought down by a huge reduction in Somali piracy, though East and West Africa remain the worst hit areas, with 150 attacks in 2012.    Globally, 174 ships were boarded by pirates last year, while 28 were hijacked and 28 were fired on....

Thursday, January 10, 2013

   The Taiwan subsidiary of Yusen Logistics has been certified by China Customs as an authorized economic operator (AEO) since the start of December, the company said Wednesday.    Yusen was granted AEO status for freight forwarding, customs brokerage and warehouse operation. The certification allows Yusen exemptions from some customs procedures, as it’s recognized officially as a logistics service provider that complies with laws and regulations and manages cargo appropriately. &nbs...

Monday, January 07, 2013

   President Obama last week signed the National Defense Authorization Act, which will reauthorize the Maritime Security Fleet Program (MSP), providing financial support to 60 ships to partially offset higher operating costs under the U.S. registry.    Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., said in a press release that the law will provide certainty to the military and ship owners by reauthorizing the program through 2025.    But Liberty Maritime, a New York-based shipowner, sa...

Thursday, December 27, 2012

   President Obama last Thursday signed legislation reauthorizing programs for the Coast Guard to carry out its mission and Maritime Administration national security functions related to the merchant marine, while setting policy for other maritime issues.     The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2012  authorizes the sea service to receive $8.6 billion in fiscal year 2013 and $8.7 billion in fiscal year 2014. Congress reversed the White House's proposal to ...

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

   The 22 crewmen from the ship Iceberg 1 , held hostage for two years and nine months by Somali pirates, expressed gratitude to the Puntland government forces who freed them on Dec. 23.    A story on the Website Garoweonline , quoted crew members expressing thanks for their liberation and said some showed signs of torture. The crew members spoke from Garowe, which is located in Somalia.    Iceberg 1 , a roll-on/roll-off ship owned by Azal Shipping of Dubai, was hi...

Friday, December 21, 2012

   Xun Wang, a former managing director of PPG Paints Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., a Chinese subsidiary of U.S.-based PPG Industries, was sentenced Thursday to a year in prison for conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the U.S. Justice Department said.    Wang, 52, was sentenced by Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. In addition to the prison time, Wang was ordered to pay a $100,000 fine and to perform 500 ...

Friday, December 21, 2012

   An Iranian company, its subsidiaries and several of its officers and business partners have been charged in Alexandria, Va., for allegedly exporting more than $30 million in computer goods from U.S. companies to Iran, in violation of trade sanctions imposed on Iran, the U.S. Justice Department said.    “BMWW (Business Machinery World Wide) is accused of taking meticulous steps to get around the embargo – and allegedly made profits hand over fist doing so,” said Neil H. MacBride, U....

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

   On Dec. 3, a new U.S. Transportation Security Administration rule requiring 100-percent screening of cargo on passenger aircraft bound for the United States went into effect.    Despite reports that screening all that additional cargo has caused delays at Hong Kong International Airport, Mark Whitehead, head of the airport's handling group Hactl, said the agency is handling the extra duties well.    The company routes around 1,100 cargo tons per day to the United St...

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

   The global on-demand shipping and logistics software developer CargoSmart has signed an agreement with the Nippon Automated Cargo and Port Consolidated System (NACCS Center) to enable ocean carriers and non-vessel operating common carriers to comply with Japan Customs’ newly enacted Advance Filing Rules .    Japan’s legislature enacted the new advanced filing rules in March of this year, requiring vessel operators or NVOs to electronically submit information to Japan Customs on ma...

Friday, December 14, 2012

   The U.S. State Department said it has provided funding to Customs and Border Protection to train 13 Libyan defense and customs officials on border security techniques.    The money is from the State Department's Export Control and Related Border Security Program, which aims to prevent proliferation of weapons of mass destruction by helping governments implement effective export control systems.    The three-day course began Dec. 10 in McAllen, Texas, and is comprised...

Thursday, December 13, 2012

   Canada is evaluating simpler eligibility requirements for highway carriers to participate in the FAST program to expedite the movement of cargo across the northern border for trusted shippers.    The Canada Border Services Agency last week said it has launched a six-month trial expanding the Free and Secure Trade (FAST) program at the Blue Water Bridge connecting Sarnia, Ontario and Port Huron, Mich. Previously, shippers had to belong to both the Partners in Protection and the...

Thursday, December 13, 2012

   Canada and Israel have signed a Customs Mutual Assistance agreement, the Canada Border Services Agency said.    The agreement provides the legal framework for Canada and Israel to share customs data to prevent, investigate and prosecute customs violations.    The signing in Ottawa followed a visit by Doron Arbely, director general of the Israel Tax Authority, to Washington where officials agreed to work with U.S. Customs and Border Protection to make their trusted sh...

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

   A senior Commerce Department official helping to oversee the overhaul of the country’s antiquated export control regulations said the Obama administration is committed to following through on concluding these reforms in its second term.     “Given last month’s election results, we have time to finish the largest part of the reform effort—the transfer to the Commerce Control List of defense articles that do not warrant control on the U.S. Munitions List—and also to make ot...

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

CBP solidifies ties with Israel Customs.    U.S. Customs and Border Protection is laying the ground work for an agreement to mutually recognize the Israeli Tax Authority's Authorized Economic Operator program.    The agency said Deputy Commissioner David Aguilar, who has headed the organization the past 11 months, met with Israeli Customs Director General Doron Arbely at CBP headquarters in Washington last week to sign a joint work plan so that exporters in Israel's AEO program can r...

Friday, December 07, 2012

   Four men were charged with making illegal exports of carbon fiber from the United States to Iran and China, the U.S. Justice Department announced on Thursday.    Carbon fiber has a variety of uses, including in gas centrifuges that enrich uranium and in military aircraft and strategic missiles.    The four individuals charged are Hamid Reza Hashemi, a dual U.S. and Iranian citizen who resides in Iran; Peter Gromacki, a U.S. citizen and a resident of Orange Count...

Thursday, December 06, 2012

   The U.S. Justice Department said Markos Baghdasarian, manager of Delfin Group USA LLC, pleaded guilty on Tuesday in the District of South Carolina to charges of conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) by making illegal exports to Iran.    In addition, he made false statements and failed to obtain the proper U.S. government licenses that these shipments require.    At sentencing, Baghdasarian faces up to five years in prison for conspi...

Thursday, December 06, 2012

   U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Tuesday announced the dates for its annual Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism conference. The event will be held in Washington, D.C., Jan. 8-10, at a location to be determined.     Registration for the C-TPAT conference is now open and individuals interested in attending are encouraged to register as soon as possible due to the popularity of the event.    The event is typically open to representatives of companies that ...

Wednesday, December 05, 2012

   The China Nuclear Industry Huaxing Construction Co., Ltd., a corporate entity owned and operated by the Chinese government, pled guilty Monday to conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and the Export Administration Regulations, and other related charges.    It is believed that Huaxing’s plea marks the first time that a Chinese corporate entity has entered a plea of guilty in a U.S. criminal export matter. The case's combined $3 million in...

Wednesday, December 05, 2012

   U.S. Customs officials indicated in last weeks' coverage of the annual Trade Symposium, "CBP turns triple play for trade facilitation," that the new initiative to vet the security of export supply chains to Japan for members of the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism would take place in January. A spokesman clarified that the arrangement with Japan takes effect this week.

Thursday, November 29, 2012

   U.S. companies that have been certified as operating secure supply chains could soon achieve faster processing of their international cargo by taking advantage of three new measures unveiled this week by border management officials.    On Tuesday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced the addition of six new import processing centers - or virtual ports of entry - organized around specific industries, the expansion of the import-focused Customs-Trade Partnership Against ...

Thursday, November 29, 2012

   Canada’s Pre Load Air Cargo Targeting pilot, one of the first steps toward an integrated security agreement between the United States and Canada, is seeking volunteers.    Transport Canada and the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) are running the project from the National Targeting Center in Ottawa. (Volunteers can sign up at PACT-CFAPC@cbsa-asfc.gc.ca .)    Interested parties — the program is targeting air cargo supply chain organizations, passenger carriers...

Thursday, November 29, 2012

   The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security has proposed a rule on the control of military electronic equipment and related items the president determines no longer warrant control under the U.S. Munitions List, but rather under the Commerce Control List.    The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls published a related proposed rule on revising the U.S. Munitions List Category XI and definition for "equipment." Both proposed rules are part of ...

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

   Amin Ravan, an Iranian citizen, and his Iran-based company, IC Market Iran (IMI), have been charged Tuesday with conspiracy to defraud the United States, smuggling, and violating the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) in connection with the illegal export of 55 military antennas from the United States to Singapore and Hong Kong, the U.S. Justice Department said.    According to court documents, Ravan was based in Iran and at various times acted as an agent of IMI in Iran and an agent o...

Tuesday, November 06, 2012

   The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security Office of Technology Evaluation has initiated a Website to show preliminary results from its ongoing U.S. Space Industry 'Deep Dive' assessment.    Started in June 2012, the BIS study is based on a mandatory data collection from over 9,000 companies, universities, non-profits, and U.S. government agencies related to the U.S. space industrial base.    “The primary goal of the assessment is to gain an unde...

Monday, October 29, 2012

   Freightwatch International said a group of armed men stole $1.75 million in consumer electronics from the TAM Cargo warehouse facility in the Viracopos International Airport in Brazil on Oct. 23.    The group of five men subdued eight security officials by locking them up in a room. They then made their way into the warehouse and were able to steal the electronic products.    Freightwatch said "with the holiday shipping season beginning, cargo theft activity is on the ri...

Thursday, October 25, 2012

   U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Wednesday said it is opening up its Air Cargo Advance Screening pilot to any interested companies.     ACAS is an 18-month-old program created in the wake of the Yemen air cargo bomb plot under which a select few air transport providers agree to electronically provide seven data elements about their consignments as early as possible prior to departure so CBP can run them through threat-assessment software and order any necessary insp...

Friday, October 19, 2012

   The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) said Friday they have committed to enhanced cooperation in air cargo transportation.    “TIACA has been building a closer relationship with ICAO in the past two years and is already on a list of international organizations invited to attend relevant ICAO meetings,” the air cargo organization said in a statement. “As part of this recognition, TIACA has provided input into a numb...

Thursday, October 18, 2012

   The World Shipping Council (WSC) said Wednesday it has hired Damian Viccars as its new Brussels representative.    Viccars joins WSC from the International Road Transport Union, where he worked for the last seven years on EU transport policy and with UN bodies involved in transportation policy.    “The World Shipping Council and the liner shipping industry have worked closely with the European Commission in its efforts to advance supply chain and cargo security policies,...

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

   International trade and offshore manufacturing took center stage Tuesday night in the second presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney.    Both candidates said their job-promotion efforts would include fielding policies that give incentives to domestic manufacturers to keep factories in the United States rather than relocate them in low-wage countries. Obama also took issue with Romney's claims that he would be tougher on oth...

Tuesday, October 09, 2012

   The U.S. Justice Department has charged a Customs and Border Protection officer, his girlfriend and an associate in Brownsville, Texas, for engaging in a multi-year bribery and alien smuggling operation along the U.S./Mexico border.    The indictment, which was unsealed Friday in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Texas, charged CBP Officer Juan Carlos Guerrero, 39, of Mission, Texas; and girlfriend Claudia Flores, 34, and Maribel Rivera, 43, also both of Mission, each...

Tuesday, October 09, 2012

   The House Intelligence Committee has advised U.S. companies to avoid business dealings with two major Chinese technology companies due to espionage concerns.    The companies, Huawei Technologies Ltd. and ZTE Corp. which are among the world's leading suppliers of telecommunications equipment and mobile phones, were named in a report released by the committee Monday.    Huawei, the largest manufacturer of telecom equipment in the world, was profiled Sunday by CBS ’ 60...

Monday, October 08, 2012

   East Coast Warehouse & Distribution Corp. has opened an expanded non-intrusive (NII) inspection facility located in Elizabeth, N.J. at its  comprehensive examination station.    The 14-acre facility is located adacent to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's terminals in Port Elizabeth and Port Newark, and will be operated through a division known as East Coast CES.    The company said the facility will allow for expeditious handling of containers...

Thursday, October 04, 2012

   The U.S. government has charged 11 people and firms in Texas and Russia with illegally exporting high-tech microelectronics.    The Justice Department said the electronic parts "are subject to strict government controls due to their potential use in a wide range of military systems, including radar and surveillance systems, weapons guidance systems, and detonation triggers."    An indictment unsealed Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York ch...

Thursday, September 27, 2012

   The Indonesia Port Corp. II has chosen a service from SOGET and Microsoft to implement what it calls the largest port community system in the world, beginning with Jakarta before expanding to other Indonesian ports.    Indonesia is the largest archipelagos in the world with 17,508 islands and 111 commercial and 614 non-commercial ports operated within the area, and is seeking an efficient port operations system to bridge and support all of these ports.    As part of its ...

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

   L-3 Security & Detection Systems (SDS) said three new X-ray systems for screening breakbulk freight and skids have been added to the U.S. Transportation Security Administration’s Air Cargo Qualified Product List (QPL).    SDS said the new systems are the PX 10.10-MV, PX 15.17-MV 200, and PX 18.18-MV 200, and they will enable the company to offer 15 TSA-qualified air cargo products to help airlines, freight forwarders and other certified cargo screening facilities. The devi...