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Homeland Security

High Costs, Operational Challenges Among Lessons Learned In Secure Freight Initiative

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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

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By Calvin Biesecker Initial lessons from a nearly six-month old pilot program at several overseas seaports to test the feasibility of scanning 100 percent of all cargo bound for the United States include substantial costs and a slew of operational and personnel challenges to maintain the effort, a senior official with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said yesterday. The Secure Freight Initiative has been fully operational at three ports since last October, and each of these locations is relatively small…

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