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Given the millions of containers that flow in international commerce and the varying financial abilities, not to say willingness, of foreign ports or shippers to invest in any technology that doesn't offer business benefits, the container security issue won't be an easy one to resolve.
They have little control over freight rates and less over fuel prices, but cost-conscious shippers still have one option: work closely with carriers to cut out wasteful spending.
What congestion on highways, at ports and on the rails costs our economy is hard to measure. But it is certainly expensive, and by all accounts, it is only going to get worse.
The loss of consensus epitomized by the thousands of earmarks in last year's highway bill may be one of the greatest obstacles to addressing the nation's infrastructure challenge.
Programming advances may soon allow you to borrow bits and pieces of different systems to develop a custom supply chain application, all at a modest cost.