
CONTAINER SECURITY INITIATIVE
The Container Security Initiative (CSI) places CBP’s of-
ficers in various foreign ports that transport ocean freight
and containers to the United States. Statistics developed
from the Census Bureau identified the top 100 ports
around the world that ship into the United States. CBP has
placed CBP officers in over 40 ports around the world. It is
anticipated that the list will grow to 100. The goal of these
officers is to be preemptive in screening inbound cargo be-
fore it is loaded onto vessels destined for U.S. gateways.
CBP officers in foreign ports have little local enforcement
power, unlike those in the United States; ...