WITH the implementation deadline for 100 per cent screening of bellyhold cargo looming, carrier executives are warning of screening bottlenecks next summer unless large numbers of forwarders get certified under the US administration's air cargo security programme.
Their clarion call comes just as the Transportation Security Agency's approach to air cargo security itself has come under fire from inside the administration in Washington, raising the spectre of further rule changes in the US airfreight security regime. |
