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Article: Homeland Security lost at sea?
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- United Press International
- Article date:
- October 30, 2002
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WASHINGTON, Oct 29, 2002 (United Press International via COMTEX)
Despite the hundreds of business lunches and trade association breakfasts Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge spoke to last year, private industry has not been fully brought into homeland security, business leaders and trade analysts complain.
Particularly acute, they argue, is the absence of cooperation on the issue of ports and seaborne cargo, which accounts for 90 percent of U.S. trade each year.
Only one pilot project on securing a shipment from a foreign location to delivery in the United States, by Osram-Sylvania and the transportation giant BDP International, has been ...