Trading Partners Work Together to Secure Maritime Cargo

摘要

A: When U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) introduced the Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) initiative after the Sept. 11 attacks, it gave government, shippers, carriers, port authorities, and other transportation and logistics intermediaries a platform to build better security protocol into the supply chain. As a consequence, supply chain partners are taking cues from CBP and making concerted efforts to share and apply security best practices throughout their organizations and supply chain operations. In fact, some are making voluntary C-TPAT certification a compliance requirement among partners.