HAUSER: SECURITY RULES WILL SHORE UP FORWARDERS

HAUSER: SECURITY RULES WILL SHORE UP FORWARDERS    Coming security rules will “force us to run our businesses properly and even bring us back to profitability,” said Stewart Hauser, president of the New York/New Jersey Foreign Freight Forwarders & Brokers Association.
   Today’s tough environment for freight forwarders “has made it very hard to make a decent profit,” Hauser said at a dinner in New York Wednesday night. “The extra vigilance required after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 will and must change old habits, and that is all to the good.”
      Hauser said the industry needs to communicate. “We don’t as much as we should, which also has to change.”
   The Association on Wednesday honored Raymond W. Kelly, police commissioner of New York City and former U.S. Customs Commissioner.