New Requirements from Homeland Security!

News From the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) A Transportation Worker Identification Credential or TWIC (which are tamper-resistant biometric credentials) that will be issued to workers who require unescorted access to secure areas of ports, vessels, outer continental shelf facilities and all credentialed merchant mariners. It is anticipated that more than 750,000 workers including longshoremen, truckers, port employees and others will be required to obtain a TWIC.
http://www.tsa.gov/what_we_do/layers/twic/index.shtm