A container scanning system worth US$9.6 million was put into operation at the Cat Lai port on April 2, the fist scanner to be used by Vietnam’s Customs Department.
Designed by the American L3 Communication Agency and funded by the Japanese Government, the scanner’s main components are manufactured in the US, the UK, and Japan.
The scanner will help customs officials detect products which do not match shipping manifests and reduce smuggling, trade fraud and illegal transporting of products.
Cat Lai, one of Vietnam’s biggest container ports, handles 45 percent of the country’s total port container traffic.
