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1. Introduction

• Transportation Infrastructure Assurance
• Organization of Report

2. Research Findings: Cargo Crime and Cargo Terminal Concerns

• Cargo Theft
  • Cargo Theft Today
  • Containerized Cargo Crime
  • Methods of Cargo Theft
  • Regional Patterns in Cargo Theft
  • Cargo Fraud
  • Cargo Theft: Key Findings
• Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering
  • Drugs and Money Laundering: An Overview
  • Money Laundering
  • Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering: Key Findings

3. On-Site and Interview Findings

• On-Site Visits
  • Port of New York/New Jersey
  • The Port Of Boston (Massport)
• Interviews
  • Just-in-Time
  • Employee Screening
  • Lack of Accountability
  • Pilferage

4. Best Practices

• Policy, Procedures, and Guidelines
  • Industry Recommendations
• Collection and Dissemination of Data
  • Industry Recommendations
• Coordination and Cooperation
  • Industry Recommendations
• Personnel Issues
  • Employee and Independent Contractor Background Checks
    
  • Security Staff
    
  • Identification System
• Facility Access Control Measures
  • Fencing
    
  • Gates
    
  • Doors and Windows
    
  • Locks and Key Control
    
  • Automated Gatehouse Facilities
    
  • Parking Areas
• Lighting
  • Industry Recommendations
• Monitoring and tracking
  • Closed-Circuit Television
    
  • Use of Secure Areas
    
  • Advanced Computer Systems/Software to Monitor and Track Shipments
    
  • Automatic Equipment Identification Technology
    
  • Global Positioning Systems
    
  • Tracking of Goods to Prevent Theft
• Container Seal Improvements
  • Industry Recommendations
• Information Technology Systems (ITS) Security
  • Industry Recommendations

5. Conclusions and Countermeasures

Appendix a: Intermodal Cargo Security Study

Appendix b: Industry Recommendations For Information System Configuration

• Identification and Authorization
• System Warnings
  • Access Control
• Security Management
• Other Protected Features

Appendix C: Industry Recommendations for Security Audit

Appendix D: Defining Terms

List of Figures

Figure 1: 1977 OTS Cargo Theft Estimates by Mode
Figure 2: FBI and NCSC Cargo Theft Estimates (Twenty-Year Trend)
Figure 3: Cargo Pilfered From a Container
Figure 4: Sealed Container
Figure 5: Compromised Seal
Figure 6: Rivets
Figure 7: Recovered weapons

List of Tables

TABLE 1: CCTV Technology

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