On a normal day, the airport processes 700 tons of cargo bound for the United States and Canada.
The secondary airports might also capture some of the cargo bound for their areas.
The challenge will be to convince shippers that there is enough of a demand for cargo bound for New York.
The Senate Homeland Security Committee approved a bill requiring all cargo bound for the United States to be screened overseas for dangerous materials or be turned away from American ports.
A Texas-based refiner, Valero Energy, said it was the owner of the crude oil cargo, bound for the Gulf Coast of the United States.
A spaceship carrying cargo bound for the International Space Station is on course despite the disintegration of one of its rocket engines shortly after liftoff on Sunday night.
This super-Geiger counter should be installed on every crane that loads or unloads a container of cargo bound for the United States, and above every toll booth that trucks pass under at the Mexican and Canadian borders.
The Iranian Navy said today that it had briefly stopped an American merchant vessel in the Persian Gulf in the second such incident since Iran began to check ships for cargo bound for its war enemy, Iraq.
It is the main port of entry for passengers and cargo bound for Nicaragua, and it handles most of the country's exports, chiefly coffee, cotton, sugar, timber, and hides.
In another symbolic step toward the exit from Afghanistan, the United States on Tuesday formally handed Kyrgyzstan control of Manas Air Base, once a major staging point for personnel and cargo bound for the Afghan war.
