Should/Can All Inbound to U.S. Containers be Inspected?

[Roger Morton]

As Congress considers the Port Security Improvement Act something not included is inspection of the 11 million or more containers arriving by sea. With the enormity of the task of inspecting every one of the containers, do you think it possible, even with technology, to get the job done or is there some other means to reasonably accomplish it?

[Cargojon]

No way. If we think the ports and CY's are clogged up already, wait till they start inspecting every container. The impact to the supply chain would be devastating.

Originally Posted by Cargojon

No way. If we think the ports and CY's are clogged up already, wait till they start inspecting every container. The impact to the supply chain would be devastating.

Inspecting 11 million or more containers?
How long the time for inspecting one container? so many time will be wasted.. and that's not good for the business,,

IMO.. Maybe the rule can be applied 'ONLY' for containers that coming from the countries that has been included in their black list,
for example; Iran, North Korea, Libya, etc..