Security expert Sam Ignarski has warned that container monitoring technology is an inadequate safeguard against terrorism."There is a lot more faith being placed in RFID (radio frequency identification) seal, and OCR (optical character recognition)," he told the Lloyds List DCN Port and Maritime Security conference in Melbourne last week.
"I'm sceptical about these solutions given the fact that port authorities very rarely stuff or seal a shipping container in the way that they once did," he said. "You are hitting up against the reality that a container is somewhere else 70 per cent of the time. By the time a container gets to the port it is too late; the place where the mischief is, is further up the chain."
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