Department of Transportation
and the Transportation Security
Administration: Hazardous
Materials
OPERATION SAFE COMMERCE
Associate Deputy Secretary of Transportation Jeffrey
Shane and Deputy Customs Commissioner Douglas
Browning jointly announced in November, 2002 the launch
of Operation Safe Commerce (OSC), a program to fund busi-
ness initiatives designed to enhance security for container
cargo moving throughout the international transportation
system. This program is the predecessor to many of the new
programs in cargo security.
OSC will provide a test for new security techniques that
have the potential to increase the security of container ship-
ments. The Department of Transportation (DOT) and
Customs will use the program to identify existing vulnera- ...