We have received additional information from reliable sources that customs authorities are raising concerns about the radiation within certain ports in Japan.  

Carriers are currently not sailing through these high radiation risk areas and as a precautionary measure procedures have been implemented by U.S. Customs scanning containers for radiation exposure from all ports in Japan. Alternative cargo routings have been put in place where necessary.

More information about the radiation screening is provided below from The Journal of Commerce yesterday.

If you have any questions about a shipment in progress, please be sure to contact your move manager.

Radiation Screening Prepared
Bill Mongelluzzo | Mar 28, 2011 4:00AM GMT
The Journal of Commerce Magazine - News Story

Vessels and containers arriving at U.S. ports from Japan will face inspections by the U.S. Coast Guard and Customs and Border Protection to ensure landside operations are not exposed to dangerous levels of nuclear contamination.

 
However, with the first vessels to leave Japan since the March 11 earthquake and nuclear disaster scheduled to arrive at West Coast ports during the coming weekend, marine terminal operators were not expecting serious incidents.

MOL, in a message similar to what other shipping lines are reporting, said its vessels were heeding the admonition of authorities to stay clear of the site of the crippled nuclear reactor.

Vessel operators are steaming at least 50 miles away from the reactor. When the ships reach a U.S. port, they will be met by the Coast Guard, which will check for dangerous levels of contamination. If the radiation levels are acceptable, the vessels will be allowed to proceed to berth.

Terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach said container-handling operations will proceed as they always do, with each container passing through a radiation portal monitor operated by Customs. Also, Customs personnel can scan individual containers with handheld radiation detectors.

Marine terminal operators do not expect to see any containers from the quake area of Japan because the infrastructure in that region was so devastated containers could not be trucked to seaports.

The radiation detecting equipment used at U.S. marine terminals is so sensitive the machines are always getting hits, the vast majority of which indicate low levels of naturally produced radiation. Rarely are containers held up because radiation levels are considered harmful.

If Customs personnel are at all concerned, they will send a container to secondary inspection, a Customs public affairs officer in Long Beach said. The secondary inspection process is quick, and there should be no significant delays in releasing the shipment, the spokeswoman said.

Terminal operators in the seaport environment can look to airports as an indication of what to expect when vessels arrive from Japan. Henrik Hololei, European Union transportation commissioner, told a seminar Tuesday of the American Association of Port Authorities in Washington that so far all aircraft arriving from Japan have had acceptable levels of radiation.