Cargo Quote by Irwin Redlener

Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and…

— Allyson Schwartz

Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per…

— Ban Ki-moon

Today, barely 5 percent of all containers coming into the United States through our ports are scanned.

— Alcee Hastings

“In 1961, before the container was in international use, ocean freight costs alone accounted for 12 percent of the value of U.S. exports and…

— Marc Levinson

The biggest container ship can carry fifteen thousand boxes. It can hold 746 million bananas, one for every European, on one ship.

— Rose George

To speak only of food inspections: the United States currently imports 80% of its seafood, 32% of its fruits and nuts, 13% of its…

— Marion Nestle

Trade carried by sea has grown fourfold since 1970 and is still growing. In 2011, the 360 commercial ports of the United States took…

— Rose George

Mr. Speaker, Delaware River's regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly.

— Anonymous

There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need to live.

— Rose George

Although Customs and Border Protection analyzes cargo and other information to target specific shipments for closer inspection, it still physically inspects only a small…

— Mike Fitzpatrick

Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships... Container ships carry a vast amount of stuff.

— Rose George

“These prophetic verses certainly would apply to the United States. Twenty-two of our states have ports or harbors through which flow the world’s goods…

— John Price