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The Cost of Containment


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The Cost of Containment

By Elizabeth Bennett
2003-09-10
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The size and volume of containers make it possible to hide munitions, drugs, stowaways, explosive materials.

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A "standard" shipping container is 8 feet wide, 8.5 feet high and 20 feet long.

It can hold as much as 19 tons of soft and hard goods.

Only about 2% of the containers that move through a port get screened. In Oakland, gamma ray scanners are used to boost that to 10%.

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