Bush will allow arab company to take over 6 major seaports

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Originally Posted by TheEnforcer

The company also is responsible for security asw ell and has the manifests, etc. It is NOT a risk worth taking, especially as some of the deal means that the UAE government has control as well.

its been a while since i have had to deal wiht customs from this perspective... but i am fairly confident that the port "owner" has zero to do with customs issues. customs agents are on site for that and the shipping companies/ships report directly to customs. the port owner has nothing to do with these things. thats why i started to realize after some consideration that it probably does not matter who owns the port in the sense that the relevent security issues are the jurisdiction of various federal agencies.

does it matter that a city department owns LAX? does that change the security procedures and processes mandated by the federal governmnet or the fact that homeland security oversees them and their implementation and enforcement? in reality, it should not matter if Osama Bin Laden owned LAX - thats why airport security was brought under federal control. why are ports different?