USA MARITIME SECURITY ACT
February 1st, 2003
BY PHILIP FINE
AMERICAN President George W Bush has still not let it be known how his administration will fund a seminal sea safety bill that recently came into law. Earlier this month (February), Bush unveiled his 2004 budget request and, oddly, offered no money for the provisions of The Maritime Security Act of 2002, which requires
detailed port security plans, more screening of cargo, upgraded navigational equipment and an increase in off-shore surveillance to 12 miles from three,.
The new law requires vulnerability assessments for the country's 361 seaports ...
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