---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 70109"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
number: "70109"
heading: "Notifying foreign authorities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/70109"
units:
  - "Subtitle VII — Security and Drug Enforcement"
  - "Chapter 701 — Port Security"
  - "Subchapter I — General"
---

# §70109. Notifying foreign authorities

- (a) **In General.—** Unless the [Secretary](/usc/46/70101.md?p=6) finds that a port in a foreign country maintains effective antiterrorism measures, the [Secretary](/usc/46/70101.md?p=6) shall notify the appropriate authorities of the government of the foreign country of the finding and recommend the steps necessary to improve the antiterrorism measures in use at the port.
- (b) **Training Program.—** The [Secretary](/usc/46/70101.md?p=6), in cooperation with the Secretary of State, shall operate a port security training program for ports in foreign countries that are found under [section 70108](/usc/46/70108.md) to lack effective antiterrorism measures.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 107–295, title I, § 102(a), Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2080; amended Pub. L. 111–281, title VIII, § 806(a)(2), Oct. 15, 2010, 124 Stat. 2992.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2010—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 111–281 substituted “Unless the Secretary finds that a port in a foreign country maintains effective antiterrorism measures,” for “If the Secretary, after conducting an assessment under section 70108, finds that a port in a foreign country does not maintain effective antiterrorism measures,”.