The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has urged forwarders to advise customers of new screening rules which come into force on 31 October.

The Impracticable to Screen amendment ends on that date and will mean that cargo which is hard to screen using normal methods will not be able to travel by air, unless shippers are enrolled in one of the TSA’s authorised cargo security programmes.

“There will only be three options – join one of the programmes, use sea freight instead of air freight, or don’t ship cargo at all,” Brandon Fried, executive director of US Airforwarders Association (AfA) told delegates at the CNS Partnership event in Miami this week.

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