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October 30, 2009: MNX's New York Facility Receives Approval as a Certified Cargo Screening Facility (CCSF)
Los Angeles, CA: MNX has announced that in addition to their LAX facility, their New York facility, servicing JFK, LGA and EWR, has received approval as a Certified Cargo Screening Facility (CCSF). The CCSP program certification was achieved through an extensive collaboration with the TSA. MNX now has two facilities that are CCSFs and are able to pre-screen cargo prior to tendering it to an airline, and ensuring that we can meet the TSA’s deadline of 100% cargo screening by August, 2010. MNX has been an active partner with the TSA and the CCSP program for over a year. As part of this program, MNX’s LAX facility was selected as a Phase One test case by the TSA in May, 2009 and has participated in several other pilot programs with the TSA.
About the CCSP program:
TSA’s approach to 100 percent screening seeks to reconcile the impacts of the requirement on industry operations with the security needs of passenger air travel. A key component of this strategy is the Certified Cargo Screening Program (CCSP). The CCSP is a voluntary program designed to enable vetted, validated, and certified supply chain facilities to screen air cargo prior to delivering the cargo to the air carrier. The CCSP will create additional screening capacity and provide a practical, effective opportunity for screening to occur on individual pieces of cargo prior to consolidation.
The CCSP is a facility based program for supply chain entities located within the United States. Facilities that
successfully apply and participate in the CCSP program will be designated as Certified Cargo Screening Facilities (CCSFs) and must adhere to TSA mandated security standards. Any facility that tenders cargo directly to an air carrier or indirect air carrier (IAC) may apply to become a CCSF. This includes:
- Manufacturers
- Warehouses
- Distribution Centers
- Third Party Logistics Providers
- Indirect Air Carriers
- Airport Cargo Handlers
- Independent Cargo Screening Facilities
TSA is pursuing a limited Phase One rollout in the eighteen major gateways, focusing on shippers in nine of the cities and freight forwarders IACs in all eighteen airport markets shown below. TSA has certified hundreds of IAC, shipper and independent cargo screening facilities to screen cargo.
