Who’s who in innovation. The rapidity of new developments in technology, science and business is hard to keep track of. More Inspiration is one site that purposes to do just that. A recent post caught my attention that speaks to the issue of the security at our ports.

“To security experts, the immense cargo ships that ferry more than 11 million containers into this country annually are potential Trojan horses—each one could easily harbor a WMD, such as a dirty bomb. Typically, only once the ships have been unloaded is their cargo subjected to random inspections and radiation scans. “There is an urgent need to effectively screen cargo before it reaches the ports,” says Charles Meade, a senior scientist at the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit think tank.”

Ya think? Fortunately, good old American innovation attempts to address the issue. SeaAway, a new venture out of Florida, has devised a means to handle all screening 14 miles off shore.

“Now Florida start-up SeaAway has developed a security system that would move cargo screening 14 miles offshore to the safety of the open seas. The plan calls for pairs of 100-foot-wide platforms anchored outside the world’s major ports. Equipped with an array of sensors and unmanned surveillance drones, the system monitors for chemical, biological and nuclear traces as ships travel between the platforms.”
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via MoreInspirations.com