ABSTRACT
Today’s logistics and supply-chain security challenge is to meet the security needs of a nation while improving logistics and growing commerce. The challenge is not just container security, consolidated shipment security, or bulk shipment security, neither is it the sole creation of safe shipping corridors. It is the ability to engage the world in a global trade, development and security solution that is good for all nations; a solution that does not favour one nation, one port, one vendor, or one individual over another. The challenge is to prepare the world for the near future in which development must occur in third world nations as well. The absence of a robust capacity to filter the illicit from the licit in the face of (a) a heightened terrorist threat environment, and (b) the growing volume of people and goods moving through international trade corridors, places US and global commerce at frequent risk of disruption.
