Additional Funds for Seaport Cargo Security Released
Jul 24, 2003 12:00 PM
The nation's three largest seaports received a funding boost last week, when the Bush Administration released $28 million for a program to strengthen security at the trading hubs.
The grants are the second round of the program known as Operation Safe Commerce, and will bring total spending to $58 million for 2003.
Under the latest grants, the ports of Seattle and Tacoma, Wash., will receive an additional $14.2 million, bringing their total funding to $27.5 million.
Ports in the New York area will receive a total of $13.8 million and Los Angeles/Long Beach, Calif., $13.7 million.
The money, which at first was to be cut until Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., pressured the department for its release, will be used to track cargo containers entering ports serving the three metropolitan areas. The three ports together take in about 75 percent of large cargo containers entering the United States each year.
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