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Mar 27, 2010 News

– local rice miller said he was forced to stop

US ports are reportedly red-flagging Guyanese containers and at least one businessman from Guyana says that he was forced to stop shipping directly to Miami, Florida, after unwanted delays sent up his costs.
Speaking with Kaieteur News earlier this week, Chief Executive Officer of Ruimzeight Rice Mills, Turhane Doerga, disclosed that containers of rice shipped from Guyana were forced to pay at least US$450 per tonne per container for US Customs inspections. This is in addition to demurrage fees.
After this happened on several occasions, the miller said he stopped shipping to Miami directly since it was highly unfeasible.
While President of the Georgetown Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Chandradat Chintamani, says that he is unaware of any complaints, and will have to investigate, another businessman who asked not to be named said that he is aware that there is a problem since the US ports seem to have a list of high-risk countries with Guyana on that list.
Any container being shipped from Guyana would automatically be re-flagged and checked.
It was unclear yesterday how affected Guyanese businesses shipping to the US are.
However, the US Department of Homeland Security is clear that it is tightening up its borders to tackle the risk of terrorist attacks and drugs entering undetected.
Each year, more than 16 million containers arrive in the United States by ship, truck, and rail. In 2001, U.S. Customs processed more than 214,000 vessels and 5.7 million sea containers. A proactive stance by Customs in screening sea containers will significantly contribute to the agency’s overall efforts to secure the borders against dangers that might be introduced through commercial traffic, the Department says.
The US Container Security Initiative (CSI) launched in 2002, had established a number of criteria to increase security. The four core elements include establishing security criteria to identify high-risk containers, pre-screening containers before they arrive at U.S. ports, using technology to pre-screen high-risk containers and developing and using smart and secure containers.
The fundamental objective of the CSI is to first engage the ports that send highest volumes of container traffic into the United States, as well as the governments in these locations, in a way that will facilitate detection of potential problems at their earliest possible opportunity.

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