New air cargo rules proposed in U.S.

May 25, 2005

25 May 2005

New air cargo rules proposed in U.S.

The following article is excerpted from the 25 May 2005 edition of “Canadian Transportation & Logistics”.

U.S. lawmakers have introduced two amendments to the 2006 Department of Homeland Security authorization bill.

The first would mandate the inspection of all cargo before it is shipped on passenger airplanes by 2008. Until that date, the second amendment would require airlines to notify passengers when unscreened cargo being shipped in the cargo hold of a passenger plane, said a CNN report.

The report quoted Rep. Ed Markey, a co-author of the bipartisan legislation, saying that 22 percent of all the air cargo that is transported in the United States is loaded aboard passenger planes, without ever being physically screened.

The Transportation Security Administration instead relies now on what's called the "known shipper" database, a list of outfits approved by TSA to ship with little or no screening….


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