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The Cost of Containment
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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.
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%.
For an infographic on the rapid flow of vessels in to the port of Oakland, please download this
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