The Tamper Evident Secure Container (TESC) system, developed jointly by GE and China International Marine Containers Group Ltd. (CIMC), the world’s leading manufacturer of containers, allows the user to verify whether or not the security of a container has been breached.<\/p>\n
In tests, 15 different attempts were made to breach the security of a container and all 15 were detected and communicated by the TESC device. “Test results of the TESC project were very encouraging, ” says Greg Baroni, president, Unisys Global, the company that supervised the testing. “The tests demonstrated a solution that meets the security demands of government and enables ports to move goods efficiently at a cost-pershipment that is viable for shippers.”<\/p>\n
Essentially, TESC is a combination of physical enhancements and an electronic integrated container security device (iCSD), a technology invented by All Set Marine Security AB of Sweden and licensed to GE.<\/p>\n
The iCDS allows the shipper to arm the container using a unique, encrypted code after it is stuffed and sealed with a traditional bolt seal. It is integrated into the doorframe of the tamper-evident container.<\/p>\n
As the container passes within range of a global wireless reader infrastructure – similar to common electronic toll collection systems – the iCSD tells logistics and Customs officials where the container is located, when it arrived and if unauthorized personnel opened it en route. This information gives manufacturers, Customs officials and importers the data they need to determine if a particular container was compromised at any point throughout the supply chain. If it has been then further investigations can be carried out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With CSI in mind, General Electric (GE) has, despite the irony of completing commercial field testing of its new product on the same day in January that the 32 Chinese stowaways were caught clambering out of their 40ft containers, developed what is claimed to be an inexpensive solution to the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-6948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terminal-operations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6948"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=6948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}