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Difficult to Discern Who Runs U.S. Ports

Thursday, February 23, 2006 10:14:40 PM
By LESLIE MILLER

Containers are loaded into a cargo ship at the Port Newark Container Terminal in Newark, N.J., Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2006. President Bush was unaware of the pending sale of shipping operations at Port Newark and five other major U.S. seaports to a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates until the deal already had been approved by his administration, the White House said Wednesday. The proposed sale has sparked a bipartisan firestorm of opposition in Congress. (AP Photo/ Jose F. Moreno)WASHINGTON (AP) - Who's in charge of security at U.S. seaports?

There's no simple answer to that question — a critical part of the debate over the takeover of major port operations by a United Arab Emirates company

All seaports are different and the biggest ones are complex. Responsibility for security is spread among government agencies: the Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection, terminal operators and state and local port authorities.


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