US to Screen Sea Cargo from Dubai Port
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The United Arab Emirates has become the first Middle East country to join a US program aimed at protecting US-bound sea cargo from terrorists.
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Loaded cargo ships carrying imported goods are anchored off the coast of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif., on Oct. 11 waiting for the opportunity to be off-loaded at the docks.
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To: AND LEGAL AFFAIRS EDITORS  Contact: U.S. Department of Justice, +1-202-514-2007, TDD: +1- 202-514-1888   WASHINGTON, June 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Overseas Shipholding Group Inc.
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Condoleezza Rice will include the Middle East in her first trip abroad as US secretary of state next week.
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Dubai Ports International is buying the foreign port operations of US railroad company CSX Corp. for $1.15 billion in cash, the companies announced Thursday.
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U.S.-bound cargo will be scanned for nuclear and radiological material at six foreign ports starting in February under a pact  with host governments announced by U.S. officials yesterday, including  a port operated by an Arab-owned company that ignited a political storm in Congress.
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(InfoWorld) - Europeans who visit the U.S. will be required to fill out an online questionnaire two days before they enter the country under a proposal being studied by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The department has been discussing the idea internally for about a month, said Hugo Teufel III, chief privacy officer for the DHS, in a meeting with journalists in Paris on Thursday. He could not say when the registration system might be introduced. The proposal will likely increase tensions between the U.S. and Europe at a time when the two sides are already in heated debate over U.S. demands for data about air passengers flying from Europe to the U.S. The U.S. says it needs access to more data to prevent suspected terrorists from entering the country, while European regulators counter that the demands are excessive and worry how the data will be used. The online registration would complement the Automated Targeting System, or ATS, a program disclosed by the DHS in November that assigns a "risk assessment" to people entering and leaving the U.S., to determine the likelihood that they pose a security threat. The registration system would likely require approval by the U.S. Congress before it could be introduced, Teufel said. "It's a fairly new initiative in that we've been discussing it internally for about a month," he added. He offered few other details Thursday, but Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff discussed the proposal earlier this week in an interview with the German newspaper Der Spiegel. Chertoff said the U.S. wanted to "elevate the security level generally" for foreign visitors, particularly in light of its looser visa requirements for some countries. The online registration "would be similar to what they do in Australia where visa waiver travelers would register online in advance, and they would, therefore, know before they arrive in the United States whether there was going to be a problem with their being admitted," Chertoff told the newspaper. "The registration would have a shelf life of some years. It wouldn't be something you do every trip, you would do it periodically," he added. The DHS will prepare a "privacy impact assessment" on the registration plan, Teufel said Thursday. Such assessments cover issues like how data is used, who can access it and for how long it will be retained. Teufel suggested that the assessment report would be made available to the public, although U.S. law makes exceptions for reports about systems used by the intelligence community, he said. Teufel was appointed by Chertoff in July last year and is responsible for the DHS's privacy policies.
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President George W. Bush said Thursday US authorities would probe security implications of a proposed deal which would see Borse Dubai take a stake in the New York-based Nasdaq stock exchange.
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WASHINGTON -- The United States is about to impose new security regulations on international travelers just as the country is experiencing its first increase in such visitors since the Sept. 11 attacks.
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The Coast Guard will begin testing in February a new way to prevent terrorism on the seas: radio receivers on weather buoys ringing the U.S. coast that can track ships long before they reach ports.
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Indian labourers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) can watch Rajnikant's latest blockbuster "Sivaji: The Boss" for
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State-owned Dubai Ports World said on  Monday it had agreed to sell its U.S. port operations to an  American International Group  unit after relinquishing  control of them to allay concerns about U.S. national security.
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Between five and eight U.S.   companies are vying for the U.S. port assets of Dubai Ports   World in a second round of the sales process, the official   overseeing the sale said in a letter to U.S. lawmakers.
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The Bush administration said it  would work with Congress to avoid U.S. exports being hit with  potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in new sanctions  approved on Tuesday by the World Trade Organization.
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RIYADH/JEDDAH, 10 December 2004 - As normality hesitantly returned to the US Consulate neighborhood in Jeddah, a specialist team of US Marines arrived yesterday in the Red Sea city to beef up security at the consulate.
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Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil futures in New York rose to a record after a report showed near-record imports aren&#39;t helping US oil inventories keep pace with demand and as fighting in Iraq raised concern about its ability to boost exports.
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Technology at airports to check  luggage for bombs is now being used by the government in tests  for screening cargo loaded aboard passenger planes, officials  said on Tuesday.