Air cargo security: more questions than answers

TSA admits US August screening target cannot be met, while next month's EU deadline remains mired in confusion
Acting TSA director Gale Rossides told a finance sub-committee of the Homeland Security Department on 4 March that cargo on domestic US passenger flights could meet the 3 August deadline for 100% screening, but international flights could require a further two years.
This is because of problems getting co-operation from the governments of the 20 countries responsible for around 85% of air freight shipments to the US.
The TSA has been making clear since last year that the August deadline would be missed. But Rossides’ two-year estimate is the longest delay in complying with the regulation that has yet been made public.
Warren Miller, manager of the TSA’s international air cargo unit, speaking at a Lufthansa Cargo air freight security conference in Frankfurt on the same day that Rossides dropped her bombshell in Washington, said the agency had already advised the US Congress twice that August was unachievable.(source IFW)

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