OSI Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:OSIS) announced this morning that it won two separate government contracts worth roughly a combined $30 million. These are cargo screening orders for Rapiscan Eagle Mobile, Rapiscan Eagle Gantry and Rapiscan Gamma Radiographic Detection Systems Gantry systems. The systems are to be deployed domestically and internationally for the inspection of inbound and outbound shipping containers and trucks.

Luxembourg (AFP) - The European Union agreed on Tuesday to launch negotiations with Canada on a so-called "open skies" agreement to lift restrictions on air transport.

EU transport ministers, meeting in Luxembourg, gave the European Commission a mandate to begin talks with Ottawa aimed at putting an end to the current patchwork of aviation accords between Canada and individual member states.

KUALA LUMPUR, (Bernama) - The US plan to scan all containers at ports outside the US destined into the country will result in more bottlenecks along the maritime supply chain without guaranteeing to make it any safer.

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An innovative plan to tackle piracy and crime syndicates is underway for central and west Africa’s ports and Exclusive Economic Zones. The International Maritime Organization’s security division has provided a platform between 24 west African states to link coastguards with bodies such as Interpol, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation and High Commissioner for Refugees, navies, insurers and other ‘action’ partners.

An open door for further negotiations between local governments and the Federal Department of Transport and Roads on the cost of new security measures has pleased the WA Local Government Association.

The Government has started two new initiatives — joint airspace management and reducing the time for clearance of cargo from the airports — so as to not only ease air traffic congestion but also allow faster clearance of consignments arriving by air. Both the initiatives were started on October 1 this year.

A new US security rule requiring importers and ocean carriers to provide additional data before loading cargo destined for the United States at foreign ports has a potential for disaster, according to a prominent lawyer.

Washington — U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced today that it has reached its fiscal year 2007 goal of initiating Container Security Initiative operations at 58 oversees ports to target and pre-screen maritime cargo containers destined for U.S. ports.

Die US-Zollbehörde hat Lufthansa Cargo nach umfangreichen Überprüfungen erneut zertifiziert. Damit verlängert sich automatisch die Mitgliedschaft im „Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism“ (C-TPAT). Damit werden die Sendungen des Unternehmens…