2 stowaways found dead in shipping container bound for Miami
Snip: The U.S. Coast Guard and Customs and Border Protection were waiting for the Panama-flagged Seaboard Trader to dock at the port Monday evening to determine the condition of two additional stowaways reportedly aboard.
Shipping container supposedly containing furniture had $22 million of drugs instead
Snip: Four people faced a Sydney court yesterday after federal police found 120kg of the pseudoephedrine tablets - used to make speed and ice - in a shipping container from Jakarta.
$40 million of Ecstacy found in shipping container
Snip: Vacuum-sealed packets containing 350kg of the illegal tablets were found floating in plastic tubs in a shipping container, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and customs officials said in a joint statement today. The container, x-rayed and unpacked at Port Melbourne on June 4, had been sent from Canada via Hong Kong.
Update: NJ firm and officer admit export of Sparrow missile parts to China via shipping container
Snip: Instead of smelting the parts as certified, however, in March 2004, SMI sold the parts to a company owned in part by the Chinese government, loaded them into a 40-foot shipping container and delivered them to the Maher Terminal at Port Elizabeth in New Jersey for export to China. The Sparrow missile parts were concealed in the nose of the shipping container, at the furthest point from the doors, behind and underneath scrap metal, according to the Informations.
1,100# of fireworks found in shipping container
Snip: About 1,100 pounds of fireworks were found in a 25-foot metal shipping container at a farm at the 18200 block of 72nd Avenue South, said Capt. Kyle Ohashi of the Kent Fire Department.
Improved port security not out of reach
Snip: When the Dubai Ports World controversy surfaced in February, politicians focused on the wrong end of the supply chain. If a bomb or other dangerous material is placed in a shipping container, discovering it after it is unloaded in Seattle is too late. The plot needs to be foiled before it blows up the global trading system, instantly generating hundreds of billions of dollars in economic losses.
Wowser MamaDearest. Thanks for this post:
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http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/41236-1.html
07/03/06 -- 04:14 PM
"Policy group urges RFID to thwart terrorists"
By Alice Lipowicz, Contributing Writer
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Use of radio frequency identification tracking technologies and 24-hour remote sensor systems on shipping containers not only would boost port security but also would have significant commercial benefits, according to a new study from the Public Policy Institute of California.
The government should encourage such dual-use technologies, for both security and commercial gain, because such investments are the most likely way to improve port security, the study said.
“Profit-seeking investments by private-sector shippers, carriers and port operators to enhance the efficiency of the global containerized supply chain may do more to prevent terrorist groups from using container shipping as a conveyor of weapons of mass destruction than will investments targeted at the outset specifically to the security threat,” the study said."
Target any white person: the chilling guidelines for Bali suicide bombers
By Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor
(Filed: 04/07/2006)
Any white person is a target. Avoid hotels because they are too well protected. Carry the bombs in small knapsacks to avoid suspicion. And don't worry about your escape route because you will become a "martyr".
These guidelines for suicide bombers were found on a computer captured by Indonesian police during a raid in November, and are believed to have been written by the British-educated bomb-maker Azahari Husin, who died during the attack.
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