Container Security Initiative

The Container Security Initiative ( CSI) is a security program of the Customs Administration of the United States of America.

After the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 in the United States to rethink the state bodies in the U.S. has begun. As a result, the United States has launched a series of measures to combat international terrorism in life. This includes, inter alia, the increased monitoring of goods by U.S. Customs. Since March 2003, the Customs Administration of the United States - charge part of the newly created Department of Homeland Security - as the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP ). In addition to the protection of purely economic interests now therefore moves the issue of security more and more into the focus of the duty.

Since 2 December 2002, the safety program of the U.S. Customs is in force. This has the aim of being able to identify and verify dubious container loads before reaching U.S. territory in order, inter alia, to prevent the importation of weapons of mass destruction.

To create a requisite risk profile of suppliers all safety-related cargo data must be reported 24 hours prior to loading in the country of origin to the CBP, this provision is known as the 24 hours rule. In addition, the containers must be sealed with a special seal.

The CSI will act in accordance with contract law with the respective States abroad. In the following European ports CSI works:

  • Port of Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • Container Terminal Bremerhaven and Hamburg Harbour, Germany
  • Ports of Antwerp and Zeebrugge, Belgium
  • Ports of Le Havre and Marseille, France
  • Port of Gothenburg, Sweden
  • Ports of La Spezia, Genoa, Naples, Gioia Tauro and Livorno, Italy
  • Felixstowe, Liverpool, Thames, Tilbury and Southampton, United Kingdom
  • The port of Piraeus, Greece
  • Port Algeciras, Spain
  • Harbour Lisbon, Portugal
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