Government of South Africa Becomes First African Nation to Implement Container Security Initiative
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced that the Government of South Africa has become the first African nation to implement the Container Security Initiative (CSI) and has begun to pre-screen cargo at the port of Durban destined for U.S. ports.
As part of the CSI program, CBP will deploy a team of officers to the port of Durban to work with South African personnel to target high-risk cargo containers destined for the U.S. Officials of the South Africa Revenue Service are responsible for screening any container identified jointly with CBP officers as a potential terrorist risk.
The port of Durban is the 17th CSI port to become operational since CSI was proposed in January 2002. CSI is now operational in the following ports: Rotterdam, LeHavre, Bremerhaven, Hamburg, Antwerp, Singapore, Yokohama, Hong Kong, Göteborg, Felixstowe, Genoa, La Spezia, Busan, Vancouver, Montreal, Halifax, and Durban.
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