Transport Security Expo is in its 10th anniversary year. It’s reported details of an expanded workshop programme for its event on November 14 and 15.
Reflecting concern expressed about the ability of the transport sector to thwart another major attack against assets, the workshop seminar programme identifies threats in the aviation, maritime, public transport and supply chain sectors. Six workshops will thus focus on passenger screening, freight and cargo security, terminal and facilities protection, perimeter security and hostile vehicle mitigation, shipping protection and rail security.
These workshop sessions will be chaired by Ian Taylor, Editor, Cargo Security International; Chris Yates, Principal, Yates Consulting, Graham le Fevre, Former Head of Security, British Army, Graham Basset, UK Vice Chairman, Operation ASIS, Steven Jones, Maritime Director, SAMI and Roy Cooper, Publisher, Professional Security Magazine.
The event organisers make the following points:
– With the demand for air travel increasing, airports must innovate to ensure an appropriate balance between the competing needs of utmost security, greater revenue generation and an improved passenger experience.
– The threat trajectory is evolving and the probability of attacks against terminals and supporting facilities is considered a persistent threat with no easy solution.
– The freight and cargo channel remains an extremely vulnerable avenue of attack, particularly from a new generation of devices that are difficult to detect by normal screening methods.
– Painful history demonstrates a pressing requirement to combine traditional perimeter security measures with hostile vehicle mitigation techniques to ensure a robust defensive posture against an increasingly wide range of external threats.
– Despite the deployment of substantial naval assets in many of the more notorious hotspots, piracy on the high seas remains an intractable problem for which self-help appears to be the only practical solution.
– Major security challenges, including protecting passengers using such open and vulnerable transport infrastructure from acts of terrorism and protecting valuable safety critical assets against organised and opportunistic theft, continue to bedevil national rail operators.
Alongside the conference and exhibition, this series of workshops seek to deliver insight into the technology options
available to the transport industries. For more information, contact NINETEEN EVENTS on:
T: +44 (0) 208 542 9090
