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Dangerous chemicals are most vulnerable to interception while they are being transported. Today 2.5 million Americans have commercial driver's licenses to carry fuels and other hazardous materials. Truckers must pass two tests: the federally mandated 30-question multiple-choice test (states can add more questions) to obtain a commercial vehicle license and a separate test on the procedures for safely handling hazardous substances. After the arrest of about 20 people suspected of fraudulently obtaining haz-mat licenses, chemical companies tightened their transport policies, assigning two drivers to every vehicle and using satellite tracking systems to monitor haulers from pickup...
...which helps explain the attention now being paid to hazardous-material licenses. From July 1999 to January 2000, authorities say, an examiner in the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation issued commercial driver's licenses to 20 men without requiring them to take mandatory tests. All but two of the licenses covered haz-mat transport. By the end of last week, all 20 men were in custody. The FBI said that they did not appear to have a connection to the Sept. 11 attacks. But that was scant comfort; they might have had their own scary plans. At the least, the scam...
...likely to impose stricter controls on trade and corporate conduct. Customs checkpoints are likely to become more burdensome, supply lines to and from risky nations might be cut, and the flow of people and goods might slow. Governments around Asia are considering new restrictions on the import and transport of fertilizer, a common ingredient in terrorist bombs. Security experts say there are dozens of other chemicals used in common household goods that terrorists could potentially use as poisons or explosives. These too might come under closer scrutiny...
...Public fears of further terror attacks were heightened by warnings of the possible use of biological or chemical weapons. U.S. authorities grounded cropdusting planes for a day following reports of previous interest by at least one of the hijackers, and police arrested 10 people who acquired licenses to transport hazardous materials. Meanwhile, President Bush announced a host of new security measures, including authorization to shoot down civilian aircraft that appeared to threaten U.S. cities...
...airline analyst at BNP Paribas in London. The Association of European Airlines figures that Europe?s carriers lost $25 million a day in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. British Airways says it will scrap or suspend 190 flights, including 30 on the North Atlantic. The International Air Transport Association said a likely scenario is for air traffic to decline 15% in the four months ending in December, costing the world?s airlines an estimated $7 billion in lost business. Once an empty airplane seat takes off, that revenue is lost forever...