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Homeland Security

Pilot Tests Show Difficulty of Total Cargo Scanning Overseas

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Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

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Pilot testing initiated three years ago in several foreign ports to explore the feasibility of scanning all outbound cargo containers before they are loaded on ships destined for the U.S. has shown a range of challenges, an official that helps oversee the screening programs for Customs and Border Protection (CBP) tells TR2. "The lesson's that we've learned, some of them have been very similar from country to country, some of them have been specific to certain countries," Dan Stajcar, director…

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Congress

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Congress

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Budget

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