Transportation Security

The corps is a unique service that will carry out border control and migration management tasks to assist EU member states. These will include identity and document checks, border surveillance and the return of people who are illegally staying in the European Union.

In line with the directive given by India’s Bureau of Civil Aviation Security, Hyderabad International Airport has commenced a three-month body scanner trial on a voluntary basis at the domestic departures terminal.

Innovative Travel Solutions (ITS) by Vancouver International Airport has reconfigured its line of self-service, biometric-enabled kiosks to meet the requirements of the Canada Border Service Agency’s (CBSA) modernized NEXUS program.

U.K. Border Force staff have revealed that Brexit uncertainty was responsible for the suspension of a partnership between Romanian police and Glasgow Airport.

The alien smugglers targeted in this operation are alleged to be responsible for the illicit smuggling of scores of individuals from South Asia and elsewhere, into Brazil, and ultimately to the United States.

A new report depicts a hypothetical cyber attack launched via a computer virus carried by ships, which then scrambles the cargo database records at major ports and leads to severe disruption.

LAX’s Global Entry Enrollment Center was temporally closed on June 23 in response to the humanitarian and security crisis at the Southwest border. CBP reduced staff at Global Entry Enrollment Centers nationwide and reassigned them to support frontline traveler processing.

As part of its review into the TSA Modernization Act, GAO found that TSA does not ensure that screening technologies continue to meet detection requirements after they have been deployed to airports.

The number of guns brought to TSA continues to be an issue across the state of Florida, with more than 418 detected through October 28. A total of 529 were found statewide in 2018.

The House Committee on Homeland Security has approved legislation authored by the late Congressman Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, to help secure our skies and improve the Transportation Security Administration’s security operations.

In line with the International Air Transport Association’s One ID initiative, Japan Airlines will implement facial recognition technology that negates the need to present documents.

A new domestic Pre-Board Screening location opened at Calgary Airport’s concourse B on October 28. The airport authority and Canadian Air Transport Security Authority opened the three lines (two regular and one lane for priority/families/accessible guests) which will be staffed during peak time.

London start-up, Zamna, which uses blockchain to automate airport security checks, has raised $5 million in seed funding in a round led by VC firms LocalGlobe and Oxford Capital, alongside Seedcamp, the London Co-Investment Fund (LCIF), Telefonica and a number of angel investors.

Belgian customs only check one in 400 ship containers’ papers at Zeebrugge, it has emerged, as questions over border checks intensified after the deaths of 39 Chinese migrants in a refrigerated semi-trailer truck from the port.

TAPA, the transport industry association that promotes supply chain security, is to work with DHL Resilience360, the integrator’s cloud-based supply chain risk management platform in a partnership on cargo crime intelligence.

On a bank of two-metre-high plat­forms rest the steel shells of five 15-metre-long passenger carriages destined for the Chicago Transit Authority. Inside them, clutches of workers trace multicoloured bundles of wire.