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Byline: Robert Massey, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
My father founded our company, Cotecna Inspection SA, exactly 30 years ago.
Since then, Cotecna has become a world leader in assuring governments of the integrity, effectiveness and efficiency of the systems they use to facilitate trade through their borders and ports. We have helped them enhance revenue through the collection of customs duties while improving their inspection, administrative and information-technology systems. Today, we have more than 4,000 employees in 150 offices in 100 countries. They include highly skilled economists, engineers, information-technology and telecommunications experts, inspectors and trade and customs experts.
We have succeeded because we have worked hard, used innovative technology for pre-shipment inspection, developed destination inspection and trained local customs administrations to help them reach self-sufficiency. And we are demonstrating the same abilities to support government efforts to enhance port and supply chain security at a time of global terrorism.
All that may surprise people who, because of recent reporting, identify us uniquely with the United Nations oil-for-food program that brought humanitarian aid to Iraqis at a time when the country was under trade sanctions.
The controversy surrounding the management of that program has put us center stage in the world's media....
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