Posted on 02/22/2006 12:34:19 PM PST by finnman69
Washington, D.C. — The 35th Container Security Initiative (CSI) port becomes operational today at the port of Dubai as announced by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Robert C. Bonner and Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Executive Chairman, Dubai Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation, United Arab Emirates (UAE). CSI is the only multinational program in place in the world today that is protecting global trade lanes from being exploited and disrupted by international terrorists.
The United Arab Emirates became the first Middle Eastern country to join CSI when the declaration of principles was signed in Dubai on December 12, 2004. A CBP deployment team will work closely with the UAE government personnel to target high-risk cargo containers destined for the United States. Dubai Customs Administration officials are responsible for screening any container identified jointly with CBP officers as a potential terrorist risk.
“I applaud the government of Dubai for assuming a leadership role in this region of the world. Dubai has acknowledged the absolute importance of securing cargo against terrorists. The Port of Dubai, which includes the much larger seaport of Jebel Ali, are modern and extremely efficient ports and I am confident that the CBP officers stationed there will benefit greatly from this remarkable opportunity,” said Commissioner Bonner. “The core elements of CSI allow for the mutual risk assessment of every oceangoing container headed for the U.S. before it is loaded on a vessel in a foreign port and before that vessel is bound for U.S. seaports. The CSI security blanket continues to expand and strengthen as it encompasses the port of Dubai.”
“I congratulate the government of Dubai in partnering with the United States and being in the forefront of protecting the global trading system,” said U.S. Ambassador to the UAE, Michele Sison.
The primary purpose of CSI is to help protect the global trading system and the trade lanes between CSI ports and the United States. By collaborating with foreign customs administrations, CBP is working towards a safer, more secure world trading system. Under CSI, CBP has entered into bi-lateral partnerships with other governments to identify high-risk cargo containers and to pre-screen them before they are loaded on vessels destined for the United States. Today, 21 administrations have committed to joining CSI and are at various stages of implementation.
On average, every day about 25,000 seagoing containers are offloaded at America’s seaports. Commissioner Bonner, confirmed by Congress shortly after 9/11, made maritime cargo security one of his top priorities. The Container Security Initiative was launched in January 2002. CSI has been accepted globally as a bold and revolutionary initiative to secure maritime cargo shipments against the terrorist threat.
The 35 operational ports in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and North America include: Halifax, Montreal, and Vancouver, Canada; Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Le Havre and Marseille, France; Bremerhaven and Hamburg, Germany; Antwerp and Zeebrugge, Belgium; Singapore; Yokohama, Tokyo, Nagoya, and Kobe, Japan; Hong Kong; Göteborg, Sweden; Felixstowe, Liverpool, Southampton, Thamesport, and Tilbury, United Kingdom; Genoa, La Spezia, Naples, Gioia Tauro and Livorno, Italy; Busan, Korea; Durban, South Africa; Port Klang and Tanjung Pelepas, Malaysia; Piraeus, Greece; Algeciras, Spain; Laem Chabang, Thailand; and Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
CSI will continue to expand to strategic locations around the world. The World Customs Organization (WCO), the European Union (EU), and the G8 support CSI expansion and have adopted resolutions implementing CSI security measures introduced at ports throughout the world.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control, and protection of our Nation's borders at and between the official ports of entry. CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.
Good Find!
Won't help.
Wow, you mean they'll actually check the containers BEFORE the come to the US?
We can't allow them to do that, we can't trust them. They're an a-rab country full of terrorists and will see the nuke but let it go anyway.
Someone call Hillary and Schumer and ask them what we should do!!
It's ALL an elaborate cover-story many years in the making to gain access to the Port of Baltimore!
Every single individual in the UAE lives only for one purpose...manipulate President Bush and Rummy so they can sneak a nuke into the Port of NY.
I thought it was the Port of Baltimore this time? I must have my terrorist "chatter" mixed up.
FYI
Sen Charles Schumer and Sen Dianne Feinstein were co-sponsors of a bill to created the Container Security Initiative. UAE was the first Middle Eastern nation to join CSI.
Now Schumer is attacking a deal where the port player is playing by the rules he sponsored.
This of course, avoids having to haul it in over the Mexican Border in a semi-truck.
But this involves six blue cities.
Et puer?
Now Schumer is attacking a deal where the port player is playing by the rules he sponsored.
You mean he was for it before he was against it?
It's that second "o." Why isn't it an "i?"
Would you vote for Nicky Bianco for police chief of Boston?
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Yeah, like anybody wants to be in Baltimore anyways (unless you are a longshoreman or the mobsters skimming the union there).
P.S. This should not be interpreted as a slight against the Terps or their chances of getting into the Dance this year. Terps fans have my personal exemption.
Whew! Thanks for posting this. This public relations ploy is so soothing to my concerns about Arab muslims controlling our port terminals. Now we can trust Russia and communist China too, because they've taken measures against terrorism.
No, they love you. Please go to the UAE and marry a muslim woman or try to convert someone. After you get out of prison for these two 'crimes' come back and tell us how much they love us. But don't forget, you'll have to come back, their government censures the internet so you won't be able to email us.
"No, they love you. Please go to the UAE and marry a muslim woman or try to convert someone. After you get out of prison for these two 'crimes' come back and tell us how much they love us. But don't forget, you'll have to come back, their government censures the internet so you won't be able to email us."
I got a better one. Go there and do anything that liberalism represents. Bet you will be beheaded within a week.
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