Mexico joins Megaports agreement
Mexico has signed onto the U.S. Megaports security program, and will install radiation detection equipment at four ports that handle almost 90 percent of the container volumes in Mexico.
Megaports is administered through the U.S. Energy Department's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and is separate from Customs and Border Protection's Container Security Initiative. Radiation detection equipment will be installed at the Gulf ports of Altamira and Veracruz, and on Mexico's Pacific Coast at Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas. NNSA officials will work with Mexican Customs to install the equipment, according to the Energy Department.
'This initiative builds on our ongoing cooperation to advance nonproliferation by deploying advanced technologies to reduce the threat of illegal shipments of nuclear and other radioactive materials into our countries,' said Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman.
Mexico joins Megaports agreement
