May 16, 2024 What's News The text write and uses here if the customer wants to know minute estimate. We answer soon we confirm.   title : Cargo's Screening Insecurity     Cargo's Screening Insecurity The U.S. Transportation Security Administration this month is writing specific and much-anticipated air cargo security regulations that industry experts believe will include demands for some physical screening of shipments and stricter oversight of the "known shipper" program. The agency started working on the rules after taking recommendations from industry advisory groups - and after a last-minute political battle that grew more heated after a bizarre incident in which a man boxed and shipped himself aboard a freighter raised troubling new questions about cargo security. Cargo industry executives, including the companies that handled the "shipment," defending their actions, noting that the boxed-up man was routed away from passenger aircraft and that the Dallas-New York journey was more dangerous to him than to anyone else. On his trip, Charles McKinley was "handled" by forwarder Pilot Air Freight, which acted on behalf of UPS Supply Chain Solutions and shipped McKinley on a Kitty Hawk Cargo freighter. Critics of current cargo security, including Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and pilot groups pressing for guns for flight crews, called the lapse stark evidence that air freight pipelines could be easily exploited by terrorists. But a congressional panel rejected Markey's demand to screen all cargo carried on passenger planes, sticking with a plan that would step up the pressure on TSA to toughen security but allow the agency to keep on track with an array of programs. Congress did direct the agency to research, develop and certify systems to inspect and screen cargo "at the earliest date possible." They also earmarked $85 million to that research aimed at making screening more efficient and dependable. Elaine Dezenski, the TSA's head of maritime, land and air cargo policy, told a recent meeting of airport cargo executives that the security regulations will cover three basic areas: stricter security measures for passenger carriers; increased compliance requirements for indirect air carriers; and mandatory security procedures for the all-cargo industry. She said TSA was looking at targeted inspections of cargo operations, an enhanced shipper database that would link to other databases such as credit agency reports and greater use of information technology as part of what she called a "risk-based approach" to cargo screening. "What percentage of cargo will be screened? We hope that's driven by risk analysis," she said. "But we don't have those tools yet. But there will have to be some random screening."