Rotterdam, home location of MTMC's 598th Transportation Group, is a prime entry point for cargo of all kinds into Europe. The Military Traffic Management Command is also affected in its shipments of privately owned vehicles of service members, MTMC officials said. A prime source of the spread of foot and mouth disease is dirt, according to experts. MTMC's prime contractor on the Global POV Contract, American Auto Logistics, Inc., of Monroe, N.Y., has voluntarily been washing vehicles with disinfectant, at the Brandon, United Kingdom, vehicle processing center in reaction to the disease. The Dutch secretary of Agriculture has restricted movements of cattle, poultry, farm transport vehicles and embryos of cloven-hoofed animals throughout the entire country.
More stringent rules apply to exports.
No meat and dairy products can be exported. The transportation of milk from farms to dairies is prohibited for 72 hours and visiting farms is strongly discouraged. Meanwhile, the U.S. Army Europe has restricted training in order to comply with an emergency order from the German Federal Ministry of Defense. The order prohibits field training outside of built-up installations with few exceptions.