Word: cargo
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...pain looks likely to spread to other industries as corporate profits get hit. Many companies, such as Intel and United Technologies, are bracing for the call-up of the Reserves, which will sap those organizations of expertise that isn't easily replaced. And new, tougher security measures for cargo at airports, shipping ports and border crossings could disrupt the just-in-time supply chain that has been one of the key accelerators of growth during the past decade. Companies could be forced to carry higher, costlier levels of inventory. With critical parts delayed at the U.S.-Canada border, Ford, General...
...that many experts have been demanding for more than a decade: banning curbside check-in or parking, forbidding family and friends to accompany passengers to the gate, having security personnel check all planes before passengers board, conducting random searches of flight crews and equipment, and prohibiting the transport of cargo or mail on passenger jets...
...just before takeoff. Investigators deliberately set off 25 emergency-exit alarms, only to find almost half of them ignored. They accomplished all this, according to the Inspector General's findings, with apparent ease, "piggybacking employees through doors, riding unguarded elevators, walking through concourse doors, gates and jet-bridges...and cargo facilities unchallenged, and driving through unmanned vehicle gates." The massive amount of construction going on at the nation's airports, including two of last week's suspect ones, Logan Airport in Boston and Newark airport in New Jersey, also gives slews of unauthorized workers room for mischief...
...directives include random checks of carry-on luggage by state police, K-9 patrols of airport roadways, cargo areas and ticket counters and state police and federal agents stationed at security checkpoints throughout the airport...
...plan to send some 460 asylum seekers to other countries. New Zealand agreed to accept 150 of the migrants, while Australia will foot the bill for the tiny Pacific nation of Nauru to take the rest temporarily. The refugees had been in watery limbo ever since a Norwegian cargo ship, the Tampa, rescued them from a foundering wooden ferry off the Indonesian coast. They demanded that the skipper take them to the Australian territory of Christmas Island or to "any Western country." But Australia refused permission to land and sent troops aboard to ensure that it did not. The stalemate...