Article: Containing cargo risk: find out how the government and private industry are working to reduce the possibility of a terrorist using cargo to send a weapon of mass destruction into the United States.

A U.S. company that imported high-tech goods from China recently conducted a security audit on its cargo operation. It found a significant vulnerability in an unlikely place. The problem was that although all of the company's goods were searched and secured before they left China, they were then stacked on a single pallet to be flown to Los Angeles. Once in the United States, the cargo had to be broken down by airport workers and reshipped via numerous airlines to its final destinations. During this reshipping process, various people, unknown to the company, had the opportunity to steal or tamper with cargo. They could even potentially use the company's containers to ...

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