TWIC Program Update – One million port and longshore workers, truckers and others at ports across the nation have enrolled in the Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) program. The program’s goal is to ensure that any individual who has unescorted access to secure areas of port facilities and vessels has received a thorough background check and is not a known security threat.
“American ports from coast to coast are more secure today because of the significant progress this program has made,” said Gale Rossides, acting administrator, Transportation Security Administration (TSA). “Enrolling 1 million workers in less than 18 months is a testament to the collaborative efforts of TSA and the United States Coast Guard on this important maritime security effort.”
Today, 36 of the 42 Captain of the Port Zones across the country require workers to have a TWIC. All ports must be in compliance with credential requirements by April 14, 2009. Port security personnel are trained to ensure workers have valid cards and Coast Guard officials are conducting random compliance inspections at these ports.
More than 150 fixed enrollment centers will ultimately vet more than 1.2 million maritime transportation system workers by the April deadline. In addition to fixed sites, more than 450 mobile enrollment sites have been deployed, registering workers at locations convenient to their places of employment.
Source: TSA.gov
I like it that T.S.A. and Lookeed Martin Have Everyone talking about How much trouble it was and how long it took for us to get the TWIC Card that 2/3rds of us will Never Use.They've got us just where they want us Competing Stories of the Enrollment Prosess Problems rather than the Arguement as to what were going to do with the TWIC Card we have Received?Here in Kona,Hawaii 200 Licenced Captains have the TWIC Cards and No Where to use them!!Theres No Gate! No Guard and it's a Public Harbor.The TWIC Card at least here in Kona will Never be USED Except to save our Livilyhood of 37 years.37 Years I've had a U.S.C.G.Licence with Letters of Recomindations and Sea Time from 1968 in Honolulu along with 7 Renewls all Noterized and Documented on a __"U.S.C.G.Documented Vessel".D.H.S.,T.S.A.,U.S.C.G. are Stoked that instead of Complaining about having to get the TWIC Cards at all were complaining about how long it's taking.All I can say is EVERYONE Should write there Senators and I guess S-3377 is still the Bill and Hope Someone in the Goverment will Come to there Sences.Thank You Captain Bill Crawford Chiripa Sportfishing Kona,Hawaii..
I like it that T.S.A. and Lookeed Martin Have Everyone talking about How much trouble it was and how long it took for us to get the TWIC Card that 2/3rds of us will Never Use.They've got us just where they want us Competing Stories of the Enrollment Prosess Problems rather than the Arguement as to what were going to do with the TWIC Card we have Received?Here in Kona,Hawaii 200 Licenced Captains have the TWIC Cards and No Where to use them!!Theres No Gate! No Guard and it's a Public Harbor.The TWIC Card at least here in Kona will Never be USED Except to save our Livilyhood of 37 years.37 Years I've had a U.S.C.G.Licence with Letters of Recomindations and Sea Time from 1968 in Honolulu along with 7 Renewls all Noterized and Documented on a __"U.S.C.G.Documented Vessel".D.H.S.,T.S.A.,U.S.C.G. are Stoked that instead of Complaining about having to get the TWIC Cards at all were complaining about how long it's taking.All I can say is EVERYONE Should write there Senators and I guess S-3377 is still the Bill and Hope Someone in the Goverment will Come to there Sences.Thank You Captain Bill Crawford Chiripa Sportfishing Kona,Hawaii..
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