Roland Beason, chief operating officer at security screening company Global K9 called on the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to clarify dangerous goods rules at the Air Cargo Conference in Orlando, Florida on 17 February.
Beason joined the panel on behalf of the canine screening provider, to address varying interpretations of the TSA’s Third-Party Canine-Cargo (3PK9-C) Program, and the issues these pose to ensuring cargo is correctly screened for items such as lithium batteries.
“From a dangerous goods standpoint, the 3PK9-C Program is not clearly defined,” he said Beason.
The 3PK9-C program was developed under TSA’s Certified Cargo Screening Programs (CCSP) and initially focused on the detection of explosives.
“The goal of these programs should be to harmonize screening operations across the board, making sure that every canine team for every screening provider is operating to the same standard,” added Beason. “We are hopeful that later this year, changes to the 3PK9-C program will be confirmed in line with our recent edits and comments, of which the TSA has accepted the vast majority.”
Beason was joined on the panel by Sandy Gregory, of Gregory Logistics, Jim Powell of Transportation Development Group, Jennifer Kirkland of AllTransPack, and Christopher Garcia of the Federal Aviation Administration.
