Sea Technology, August 1st, 2003
Protecting Commerce has Global Effects Including Inspections At Foreign Ports and a Focus on Shipping Containers
With 361 ports and 95,000 miles of coastline, and with more than 95 percent of all international trade entering the United States via ships, there is plenty to monitor and protect. With marine imports totaling $738 billion per year-7.5 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product-and cost estimates of the impact of a recent port shutdown as high as $2 billion per day, U.S. international trade is considered America's Achilles' heel.
The influx of goods through U.S. ports provides a v...
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