The program’s goal is to ensure that any individual who has unescorted access to secure areas of port facilities and vessels has received a thorough background check and is not a known security threat.
Gale Rossides, acting administrator, Transportation Security Administration said the program has made U.S. ports more secure.
Today, 36 of 42 Coast Guard Captain of the Port Zones across the country require workers to have a TWIC cards and all ports must be in compliance with credential requirements by April 14.
TWIC estimates that more than 150 fixed enrollment centers around the country will ultimately vet more than 1.2 million maritime transportation system workers by the April deadline.
The DHS TWIC Dashboard said that as of March 5 out of 995,472 enrollments, 909,180 cards had been printed and 763,145 had been activated.
