Ports, Ships Security Plans Miss Deadline, Measures Against Attacks by Sea Lag Behind Air Security
Charleston Daily Mail › January 02, 2004
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WASHINGTON - Terror strikes from the sea could be even more catastrophic than those from the air, intelligence officials say. They fear a hijacked oil tanker could be rigged with explosives or a radioactive dirty bomb could be smuggled ashore in a shipping container.
But almost 5,000 ships and about four out of every five of the nation's ports, ferry terminals and fuel-chemical tank farms failed to meet a Wednesday deadline for submitting security plans showing how they will deal with those potential threats.See the full content of this document
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Ports, Ships Security Plans Miss Deadline, Measures Against Attacks by Sea Lag Behind Air Security
Security measures to prevent attacks at seaports and inland waterways have fallen far behind efforts to p...
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