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Scanderberg Air, XL Airways, ABX Air, Air Belgian Customs Purchases Canberra
Europa & Virgin All Sign with Global Germanium ASP System for Antwerp
Scanderbeg Air has engaged the Global Elite Group to provide security Canberra announced a purchase order from Belgium Customs-Port of
services for its new services from JFK airport. Scanderbeg Air is an airline Antwerp for an Advanced Spectroscopic Portal (ASP) system. Major ports
that offers transatlantic flights to Kosovo and Albania. The flights will be have begun secondary radiological screening of cargo that has triggered a
operated out of New York JFK, with a pair of Boeing 767-200ERs, to primary alarm (often from a harmless source such as granite or bananas)
Tirana and Pristina. or is designated as a risk.
Meanwhile, ABX Air has engaged the Global Elite Group to provide The Canberra Germanium ASP system will be used in secondary
security services for its new services in Lagos, Nigeria. ABX Air, Inc. is a screening of containers at the port, alongside a non-intrusive X-ray system.
cargo airline headquartered at Airborne Airpark, Ohio, and operates ASP systems are a key element of the development and implementation
scheduled, ad hoc charter and ACMI freight services, including overnight of global security architecture currently being undertaken by the U.S.
express small-package services and freight. Department of Homeland Security's Domestic Nuclear Detection Office
ABX is commencing regular services between Brussels, Belgium and (DNDO). The portals are ideal for protecting ports and borders from
Lagos, Nigeria and, as such, Global will work closely with ABX Air’s smuggling of Special Nuclear Materials (SNM) that could be used in
Corporate Security Department and Flight Operations Department to nuclear-based terrorist attacks.
provide specialist functions including the transportation and security of The Canberra Germanium ASP system has superior identification
crew in Lagos, intelligence monitoring and emergency response support. capabilities and is the only technology that can, with the highest degree of
Air Europa has engaged Global Elite Group to provide security services certainty, confirm the presence or absence of SNM (Uranium or
for its flights at JFK and Miami. XL Airways France has contracted the Plutonium) or Radiological Dispersal Device (RDD), even when "masked"
company to provide security services for its new flights to John F. by normally-occurring radioactive materials or legitimate industrial and
Kennedy, whilst Virgin Atlantic Airways has engaged Global to provide medical nuclides.
security services for its flights at Chicago O’Hare.
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