E-commerce maintains a growing trend in imports to the United States, highlighted the Office of Customs and Border Protection (CBP). These purchases are usually shipped via international mail and express courier services. Notably, the total volume of de minimis shipments (shipments valued at $800 or less) increased across
The US government processed more than 400,000 travelers at seven seaports during fiscal year 2021, using biometrics. In that year, eight major cruise lines and one ferry operator engaged with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to develop facial biometric processing for closed-loop travel. CBP uses a traveler’s face
The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) biometrically processed more than 48 million travelers in fiscal year 2021. The process was done using facial matching biometric technology at check-in, check-out and pre-clearance locations with a match rate of over 97 percent. To ensure higher accuracy rates and
Safran, a French aircraft engine, rocket engine, aerospace components and defense corporation, projected that 38,000 new aircraft will be delivered over the next 20 years (2022-2041). Of that total, 27,500 would correspond to narrow-body aircraft, 6,000 wide-body aircraft and 4,500 regional aircraft. In 2021, emissions from product use
Mexico is ideally positioned to become a clean energy powerhouse given its world-class renewable energy resource potential and the low cost of renewable energy generation. That is the conclusion reached by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), an US laboratory that specializes in the research and development of
Volkswagen projected that fiscal 2022 will continue to be affected by supply shortages due to structural shortages of semiconductors. But it anticipated that the supply of semiconductors will improve in the second half of the year, compared to the first half. According to its calculations, given the continued