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AI-Assisted Risk Scoring for Inbound Air Cargo Security

Accountable
Transport Canada (TC)
Functional Modes
Deciding (Analytical AI)
Human executes
Purpose
Safety & Security
Input Dataset
Sensitive personal information Identifiable data
Algorithm or Model
Classification & Prediction
Output Dataset
A recommendation or prediction Identifiable data

This system automatically scores every inbound air cargo shipment to Canada for security risk before it is loaded onto an aircraft. It uses machine learning and natural language processing to analyse air waybill data — including shipper names, addresses, and commodity descriptions — and flags high-risk shipments for review by Transport Canada analysts. Low-risk shipments are cleared automatically; higher-risk ones are reviewed by a human analyst who decides whether to request more information, require additional screening, or issue a do-not-load notice.

Sources for this disclosure

This disclosure was drafted with AI assistance.

Schema: ai@2026-05-06-beta

Government of Canada – DTPR AI Register