The CPS equipment purchased by US-based global security firm Lockheed Martin includes a ship-to-shore crane spreader outfitted with the CPS technology, which allows containers to be scanned as they are in transit without disrupting container flows at the port. This will help meet the US government’s aim of having all in-bound container traffic scanned at all ports by 2012, CPS said.
CPS’s technology involves spectral data acquisition, spectral data analysis, isotope identification, isotope proportional mix, classification and product identification. It can be installed on crane spreaders, straddle carriers and other mobile equipment.
Lockheed Martin plans to use the system as part of its integrated technology solutions portfolio and will install and test the CPS system at a US east coast port during 2009.
Troy Thompson, president of CPS, said: “Lockheed Martin is an outstanding leader in the field of homeland, infrastructure and maritime security, and we are delighted to be working with them.
“In a very short time terminals in the US and around the world are going to need container security solutions that comply with the US container security initiative, but which do so without compromising port productivity. At a time when the global economy is undergoing significant strains, we need security solutions that do not add an extra security step in transhipment and intermodal operations.”
