Port and Shipping Industry & Postal Services

Millions of containers enter sea ports in the US each year. Only three percent of those containers are searched. The three percent searched are considered high risk ships containing cargo discrepancies. The sheer volume of ships entering U.S. ports and the inability to inspect all containers enables the terrorists to smuggle biological and nuclear weapons into the country. Osama bin Laden has stated in his training manuals that he is interested in causing destruction at sea ports.

Similarly, the US Postal Service is a large system that is difficult to protect. Over 200 billion pieces of mail are annually sent throughout the US via the postal service. There are over 38,000 post offices, 300,000 collection boxes and 750,000 postal employees. The advantage for terrorists is that mail drops are anonymous thus making the United States Postal Service a prime target

Working with Israeli counterterrorism experts who have 50 years of experience protecting their critical infrastructures, Shafran USA develops specific counterterrorism plans for the shipping and postal industries.

To do this, Shafran USA:

• Conducts Threat Assessment and vulnerability analysis of port, shipping and postal facilities

• Designs and installs counterterrorism systems

• Trains security personnel in counterrorism procedures and techniques

• Provides management of counterterrorism system

Shafran USA has the knowledge to develop counterterrorism systems to mitigate potential terrorist threats to these critical infrastructure sectors.