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Shippers press for container seals for greater security  view story
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Julia Malone - - Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Homeland security officials this month touted multimillion-dollar X-ray machines, gamma-ray imaging and radiation sensors now being deployed to inspect cargo at seaports from Savannah to Long Beach, Calif.
Yet as tens of thousands of shipping containers arrive each day from abroad, the government has yet to take one of the most basic security steps — requiring each cargo box to have its doors bolted by a simple metal seal that costs no more than $1.
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