Sentence examples for air cargo system from inspiring English sources

The air cargo system is built into the way many companies do business.

The plot appeared to represent a new chapter in efforts to attack the United States by exploiting vulnerabilities in the international air cargo system.

American officials cautioned that the Saudi tip in early October, though more specific than other previous warnings, made no mention of an impending attack on the air cargo system.

The group, which is believed to have close ties with Al Qaeda's central leadership in Pakistan, later bragged about the plot's low cost and disruptive effect on the international air cargo system.

German officials were just beginning to organize to try to address the vulnerability of their nation's air cargo system when they were alerted to the device in the mailroom of the chancellery.

If that turns out to be the case, it would be a rare attack aimed at the air cargo system — one of the foundations of the global economy — rather than the passenger system, which has received the most attention from governments working to avoid a repeat of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Critics charge that federal agencies continue to overlook important areas like ports and air cargo systems.

In a detailed account of its failed parcel bomb plot last month, Al Qaeda's branch in Yemen said late Saturday that the operation cost only $4,200 to mount, was intended to disrupt global air cargo systems and reflected a new strategy of low-cost attacks designed to inflict broad economic damage.

Though only one person was injured, and only lightly, and most of the devices were neutralized, the wave of bombs unnerved European officials already scrambling to secure the continent's air-cargo system after two explosive devices were intercepted en route from Yemen to the United States last Friday.

The latest plot differed in having made targets of the international air cargo network, with security systems that differ widely around the world, and which, especially outside the United States, tend to be far less rigorous than the checks routine for passenger flights.

Ms. Collins and Senator Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan, asked why the system for air cargo could not be changed immediately.