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12 May 2008
by Justin Stares
THE massive cost of implementing US container security legislation has been revealed in a confidential memo passed to Lloyd’s List.
Imposing 100% scanning of all inbound boxes so terrorists cannot use them to launch an attack in the US would cost more than $500 per unit to US trading partners, says the European Commission.
Based on initial results from a pilot project in the port of Southampton and on “preliminary contributions from EU member states”, the commission concluded that “a simple calculation of total cost relative to the number of scanned US-bound containers gives an average cost/container that exceeds $500.”
by Justin Stares
THE massive cost of implementing US container security legislation has been revealed in a confidential memo passed to Lloyd’s List.
Imposing 100% scanning of all inbound boxes so terrorists cannot use them to launch an attack in the US would cost more than $500 per unit to US trading partners, says the European Commission.
Based on initial results from a pilot project in the port of Southampton and on “preliminary contributions from EU member states”, the commission concluded that “a simple calculation of total cost relative to the number of scanned US-bound containers gives an average cost/container that exceeds $500.”
1 comment:
Who would want to supply a country that imposes such a cost anyway? Of course they won't want the supplier to increase their prices either. Leave them to their own ignorant devises and let them wallow in their own self pity.
Justaconsumer
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