New port security plan gets good review

Sen. Patty Murray helped get funding for the program, reiterating how complex and complicated it is to keep watch on all the cargo that’s moves in and out of our nation. “we cannot search every container that comes into our country. With $750 billion in cargo in more than 6 million containers a year, the haystack is just too big. Instead, we’re using technology and intelligence to make the haystack smaller, and show us which containers are a security risk,” she said. – (Full Article)




– King 5 News – September 2, 2004