There is a considerable amount of activity in third-party logistics and shipping companies, but many of the RFID technologies remain immature.

RFID has been promoted as a way to help secure ports; however Gartner analysts say the technology is not best suited for this role.

RFID is an automated data collection technology that uses radio frequency waves to transfer data between a reader and an RFID tag to identify, track or locate that item.

RFID does not, specifically, require physical sight or contact between the reader/scanner and the tagged item.