Independent journal on economy and transport policy
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Shipping insecurity
(San Francisco Chronicle)
May 15, 2002
Hodgepodge system guards the nation's seaports, and in post-Sept. 11 world, that has officials worried
David Armstrong, Chronicle Staff Writer
Every day, 800,000 cargo containers pass through the nation's seaports.
Only 2 percent of those containers -- which are used to transport everything from imported car parts to running shoes -- are opened and inspected by U.S. Customs Service inspectors on site.
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