5 July 2004

Coast Guard: "Things went well" for ISPS

The following article is from the 2 July 2004 edition of “The Journal of Commerce”.

U.S. Coast Guard personnel inspected 79 foreign vessels, and turned away or ordered six to leave a U.S. port … on Thursday [1 July], the first day the agency began enforcing new anti-terror rules under the International Ship and Port Security Code and the Maritime Transportation Security Act.

All told, 270 foreign flags arrived at U.S. ports, 154 of them had passed their Coast Guard security review before July 1.

"Things went well on Thursday," said spokeswoman Jolie Shifflet. "Part of our success was the number of vessels we boarded before July 1."

The Coast Guard's policy is to board a vessel on its first call after July 1, to verify its security certificate and security plan. …