The following is excerpted from the 18 April 2011 edition of The Journal of Commerce.

SAFE Port Reauthorization Act renews C-TPAT and CSI as author calls scan-all effort 'misguided'

The battle over 100 percent scanning of U.S.-bound ocean containers is taking another sharp turn in a partisan skirmish over maritime security.

A bill to reauthorize the 2006 SAFE Port Act includes a provision that would suspend the July 2012 deadline for scanning all containers before they board a U.S.-bound vessel. Its sponsors, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., authors of the original SAFE Port Act, filed a similar reauthorization last year, but it died at the end of the congressional session...

This article is available in its entirety on The Journal of Commerce website at:

http://www.joc.com/government-regulation/senate-bill-would-suspend-100-scanning-deadline

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