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Issue 2 2015 - Freight Business Journal
///SECURITY Take care – it’s a jungle out there
There is a bewildering array of new technology available to enhance supply chain security. But nothing can replace the Mark I eyeball – or common sense and intuition, for that matter.
Radiation-free explosives detection
US-based Morpho Detection - a daughter company of aerospace giant Safran - launched its new desktop explosives
trace
detector (ETD), Itemiser 4D at the Transec show in London. It uses non-radioactive technology, eliminating the regulatory and other problems of radiation- emitting trace detection equipment. Itemiser 4DX has a long-lasting battery to enable rapid deployment between locations without powering down and, says Morpho, with long-life consumables and internal calibration, it minimises operational costs for air cargo facilities airports and other users. Bob Green, sales leader for
cargo in the UK Europe, said that freight forwarders and others who routinely scan cargo by
X-ray were increasingly realising the value of explosive trace detectors (ETDs) as well. While X-ray equipment is getting more powerful, it still cannot scan all cargoes, particularly denser items (so-called ‘dark’ consignments) or those containing metals or liquids. ETDs work by picking up the infinitesimal traces of explosive that even the most careful bomb- makers leave behind and, if a consignment can be cleared at the forwarder’s premises there and then, it reduces the scope for delays. Visual inspections are time-consuming, as is inspection by third parties, Green points out. Further impetus to the demand for ETDs has been the current suspension of canine screening in the UK – some users have turned to the equipment as an alternative.
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