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Article: ATA Urges Improvement to Border Infrastructure and Procedures.
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- Bioterrorism Week
- Article date:
- November 2, 2009
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Improving the security and efficiency of freight transportation across borders will require more funds for infrastructure, more reasonable enforcement of trade security program rules, and giving the lead role in coordinating federal efforts to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency, Celadon Group Inc. Chairman and CEO Stephen Russell told a congressional panel today (see also American Trucking Associations; Celadon Group, Inc.).
Speaking on behalf of the American Trucking Associations (ATA), Russell told the House Subcommittee on Border, Maritime and Global Counterterrorism, House Homeland Security Committee ...