Although the need to combat container-related crime, such as fraud and the smuggling of contraband, drugs, firearms or illegal immigrants, has long been of global concern, it took the events of “9/ 11” to alert the world to the vulnerability of the container transport chain to the terrorist threat.
Container terminals, whether large or small, have since been identified as being particularly open to attack, resulting in the drawing up of various global initiatives aimed at making them more secure....
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