Reply #3: Hong Kong, Singapore, and a few (very few) countries inspect 100%

[Coastie for Truth]

of all containers. (We do 6%-12% of containers).

We really rely on the honesty (computer verified ?) of shippers, carriers, freight forwarders, port operators, rail carriers, truckers, etc. with full inspection of 6%-12% of containers.

Bush - Cheney - Chertoff don't want to spend the money.

:shrug:

Steve Flynn has been ranting for 20 years - and I have been ranting for 36 years (although mostly about Liquefied Natural Gas Super Tankers - and more recently Esso Valdez).

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Here's one of many reads -- --- and if you go back into the late 1960's and early 1970's, my port security studies will pop.