India to Join US Global Container Security Initiative

28/06/07

India is moving towards joining an American global container security system aimed at stopping the proliferation by sea of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, reports The Business Standard of India.
Discussions are at an advanced stage for India's participation in the American-led Container Security Initiative (CSI), a multi-national programme for monitoring and disrupting supplies of dangerous items before they can reach the shores of a participating country.
CSI is a security regime to ensure that all containers, which pose a potential risk of terrorism, are identified and inspected at ports other than those in the destination country. Participating countries will have reciprocal rights to send custom officers to US ports to target ocean-going, container traffic bound for their territories.
CSI addresses the threat to global trade posed by the potential terrorist use of shipping containers to deliver chemical weapons. Devised after the 9/11 terror attacks, CSI is designed to safeguard global maritime trade while allowing cargo containers to move faster and more efficiently through the supply chain at seaports worldwide.
By participation in CSI, India expects to ensure better security by preventing any dangerous items from reaching its shores. With regard to commercial advantages, sources said the participation was aimed at ensuring unhindered movement of items across the globe, particularly those having genuine technological use but suspected by some of having dual use.

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2D Imaging: The Scanning Technology of the Future

Task I. Study the following words:

2D imaging – двухмерное изображение;

2D barcode – двухмерный штриховой код (штрих-код);

linear code – линейный штрих-код.

Task II. Translate the Russian words in the text into English.

Choose from: world leader; boarding pass; data capture; point of delivery; linear codes; luggage; image; aircraft; technology of the future; demand; scanning ability; items; information; signature; access control; advantage; 2D barcodes; exact location; baggage handling; customer.

2D imaging and 2D barcodes could be the ideal way to manage доступный контроль at an airport, take care of оформление багажа and trace предметы.

Right across Europe, there is an increasing market спрос for one of the latest ‘ считывание’ данных technologies: 2D imaging.

This suggests that 2D imaging is rapidly becoming the технология будущего – a trend that has already been anticipated by the мировой лидер in this sector, Hand Held Products. The двухмерные штрих-коды are able to hold much more информация than линейные коды – up to 2, 000 characters.

The benefits of 2D technology:

It can also contain information about the точное местонахождение of a piece of багаж inside an самолет, or all the information that is usually found on a printed посадочный талон.

2D imagers allow a клиент (заказчик) not only to read 2D barcodes, but can also be used for taking photos or for подпись capture at the пункт (место) поставки.

An additional преимущество of the 2D imager is its omni-directional сканирующая способность. The image engine automatically converts the изображение to the right orientation so that the code is read correctly.

 

NOTES:

2D barcode - двухмерный штрих-код; двухмерныминазываются символики, разработанные для кодирования большого объёма информации. Расшифровка такого кода проводится в двух измерениях (по горизонтали и по вертикали).

Linear code – линейный штрих-код; линейными (обычными) называются штрих-коды, читаемые в одном направлении (по горизонтали).