Barbadian information systems specialist David Weekes recently launched the Pandora Case and Brace Initiative at the Pinelands Creative Workshop headquarters. Weekes said the Pandora Case And Brace Initiative was the beginning of a mini-industrialisation move that would culminate in the assembly and manufacture of enhanced secure shipping of inter-modal containers and tamper-proof freight/packages both regionally and globally. “What this means, in a nutshell, is that with this new proposed technology in place, in addition to persons being able to personally keep track of their items that are being shipped from various parts of the world, they will also have the opportunity to be informed immediately if anyone attempts to tamper with their items, whether in packages or containers, wherever they may be at any one given time. “A monitoring mechanism will also be in place to alert the local law enforcement authorities as well as persons responsible for the safe transporting of these items,” he said.Weekes said the initiative would be undertaken at a locally built plant and the items would be commercially available in about three months’ time. He said when one took into consideration that just over US$60 billion (BDS 120 billion) in theft occurred in the transportation sector on an annual basis, it should be the desire of shippers, commercial airlines and insurers to buy into the technology which was designed to eliminate and drastically reduce this astronomical figure. (CH)
