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SUPPLY CHAININTELLIGENCE CENTER
Global Intelligence Note12 October 2018
The SensiGuard ™ Supply Chain Intelligence Center (SCIC)
presents a summary of major incidents and news articles
relating to cargo theft and intelligence for the week ending
12 October 2018.
EMEA
United Kingdom ...................................................................... 1
Spain ....................................................................................... 1
Italy ......................................................................................... 2
Ghana ..................................................................................... 2
France ..................................................................................... 2
Germany ................................................................................. 3
Kenya ...................................................................................... 3
South Africa............................................................................. 3
Nigeria ..................................................................................... 3
Europe/China .......................................................................... 3
APAC
Malaysia .................................................................................. 4
Japan ...................................................................................... 4
Bangladesh ............................................................................. 4
China/Uzbekistan .................................................................... 4
India ........................................................................................ 4
North & South America
Brazil ....................................................................................... 5
Mexico .................................................................................... 5
U.S. & Canada ........................................................................ 5
EMEA
United Kingdom10 October 2018: Increasing numbers of U.K.
shippers are switching their container import
gateway from the congestion of Southampton
and Felixstowe to Liverpool. According to freight
forwarders and importers, the Mersey port’s
enlarged terminal capacity (since its deep-water Liverpool2
terminal opened in late 2016) has meant an absence of
demurrage and detention charges, as well as faster truck
turnaround times and available haulage. These factors have
been thrown into sharp focus since the congestion issues began
at Felixstowe in the summer and later spread to Southampton.
Read more: The Loadstar (U.K.)
Spain9 October 2018: A driver parked for his overnight
break in the industrial area Zona Franca – Carrer
E, close to the port of Barcelona. The driver
was woken as he had heard noise; he went to
investigate and saw some men fleeing the scene in
an SUV. They had broken the seal on his trailer and opened the
rear doors. Two pallets of cargo had been taken.
Source: K&N Ring Alert
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Italy11 October 2018: A truck transporting
tobacco on the SS96 near Grumo Appula,
Bari (Apulia) was attacked by a gang of
at least five armed and masked men onboard a car. The
driver of the truck is believed to have been kidnapped. Police
investigations are ongoing.
Read more: Borderline 24 (Italy)
10 October 2018: Six companies in the industrial
area of Monsano (Marche) were targeted by a
gang of thieves. They stole a variety of products
such as furniture, bicycles (e-bikes), food, and
Electronics before the alarm in a food company was
triggered. It is believed that over €100,000 worth of products
were taken overall.
Read more: Vivere Jesi (Italy)
1 October 2018: Seventy tons of stolen brass,
equal to a value of €350,000, was stolen by
two gangs who worked together to raid thirteen
warehouses and attempted to do so in three
other companies. These gangs have now been dismantled by
the Carabinieri of Verbania along with colleagues from other
provinces. Thirteen people have been arrested.
Read more: Info Vercelli 24 (Italy)
Ghana7 October 2018: The Ghana Revenue Authority
(GRA) has lost an accumulated revenue of GH¢4.5
billion over the past five years as a result of
infractions by traders, importers and governmental
agencies, the Head of Tax Policy Unit at the Ministry of Finance,
Mr Daniel Nuer, has said.
Read more: GhanaWeb.com
France5 October 2018: With the increase in the
price of cigarettes, criminals are increasingly
attacking delivery trucks. Friday morning, four
hooded individuals targeted a truck as it left the depot in Mions.
The gang forced the truck drivers to flee before they took control
of the truck and escaped. The truck was later found abandoned,
empty, in the Saint-Laurent-de-Mure area.
Read more: Le Progrès (France)
5 October 2018: Pallets of drinks
were stolen from a warehouse with the
involvement of three employees and
a shopkeeper. They were arrested on
Wednesday. On 31 August, a load of ten
pallets of drinks left a warehouse in La Courneuve. The delivery
was unloaded in front of a grocery store in the Mille-Mille district
in Aulnay-sous-Bois. To disguise the operation, the driver had
explained to his boss that he had been the victim of an armed
robbery. An investigation entrusted to the La Courneuve police
station revealed flaws in the employee’s story. CCTV cameras
in the city of Aulnay-sous-Bois showed the team and the
shopkeeper in front of the grocery store unloading the goods
without threat. The initial loss amounted to €10,000.
Read more: Le Parisien (France)
4 October 2018: An employee who claimed
he had his company’s fuel card stolen has
been arrested. A temporary employee,
assisted by four accomplices, stole 9,500
liters of diesel in three months from two
transport companies near Toulouse (Haute-Garonne). The
five men suspected of this scam were arrested and placed in
custody. According to the regional newspaper La Dépêche,
the 57-year-old temporary driver declared on the last day of his
contract that the fuel card for his truck had been stolen or lost.
He actually kept these cards for three months between February
and April. The fuel thus stolen was used to refuel the personal
vehicles of the driver and four of his associates. Sometimes
the fuel was sold at a discounted price to other users. The two
transport companies filed a complaint when they found the theft
of a very large amount of diesel, not less than 9 500 liters, for an
estimated damage of €11,500.
Read more: Le Parisien (France)
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Germany10 October 2018: At night, thieves cut the
trailer curtains of trucks on highway parking
lots and steal the cargo. The damage caused
by the curtain slasher in this way is nationwide
in the billions. So far this year in Saxony-Anhalt there have been
around 580 cases of theft by curtain slashers on parking areas
with the value being around €3,500,000, according to the State
Criminal Police Office. In 2017, in total there were 613 incidents
recorded with a value of €3,050,000 and 2016 there were 609
incidents with a value of €1,150,000.
Read more: Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (Germany)
9 October 2018: Thieves stole a trailer which
contained 5700 bottles of herbal liqueur worth
around €50,000. The trailer was parked in the port
district of Veltenhof in Braunschweig.
Read more: Hannoversche Allgemeine (Germany)
8 October 2018: Boxes of cosmetics worth
several thousand euros were taken from
the trailer of a truck parked at Rastanlage
Heiligenroth on the A3. Criminals slashed the trailers curtain and
stole the cargo.
Read more: Presse Portal (Germany)
Kenya10 October 2018: Detectives in Makindu
have arrested a driver and impounded a truck
believed to have been hijacked along the Nairobi-
Mombasa highway. The driver was caught
offloading assorted office equipment and supplies
at Kibarani shopping centre in Makindu on Wednesday morning.
Makueni Police Commander said that the cargo that included
air fresheners, water dispensers, refrigerators and electronic
machines are suspected to have been stolen. He said a gang
hijacked the truck and assaulted the driver, who was abandoned
in a bush. He said the driver of the truck that was headed to
Nairobi is undergoing treatment at Voi Hospital. The police boss
said they received intelligence reports on the truck and pounced
on the suspect.
Read more: The Star (Kenya)
South Africa11 October 2018: Rolls of wire fence worth
R1.6m were stolen from Edenvale, and were
only discovered when the truck arrived in
Boksburg with the cargo missing. According to
Chief Superintendent, EMPD spokesperson, on the night of 26
September, a truck with two trailers pretending to be authentic
transporters of the fence cargo to Zambia took delivery of the
cargo from a company in Edenvale. “It was subsequently found
that the delivery was taken under false pretenses,” said the
spokesperson. “Investigations were initiated which on Tuesday,
October 9 resulted in the recovery of the truck and the trailers
used in the theft.”
Read more: Boksburg Advertiser (South Africa)
Nigeria9 October 2018: Five suspected members of
a trans-border robbery gang were arrested by
the Lagos State Police Command as they were
fleeing Ogun state The gun-wielding gang of nine
stormed a haulage company’s warehouse, where
they hacked one of the private guards with machetes before
tying his legs and hands. While two of them posed as guards
at the gate to wade off intruders, others loaded a truck with
goods from the warehouse and zoomed off, abandoning the
dying gate-man in the pool of his blood. Operatives of the Rapid
Response Squad stopped the vehicle at Meiran junction and
arrested the five suspects.
Read more: Vanguard (Nigeria)
Europe/China9 October 2018: All instances of theft on the
New Silk Road take place in Europe. A second
bridge between Malaszewicze-Brest should
speed up traffic, and customs clearing could
be done before the train hits the track to smoothen border
procedures. These were the opinions and suggestions of
logistics providers/specialists at the New Silk Road Conference
that took place on 27 September in the Netherlands.
Read more: RailFreight.com
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APAC
Malaysia12 October 2018: The Royal Malaysian
Police (PDRM) crashed the biggest cigarette
smuggling syndicate in the East Coast
of Johor with the arrest of twenty-three
individuals involving a seizure of RM9 million in
three separate raids in the state. Bukit Aman’s Internal Security
and Public Safety Department director said the operations
involved Bukit Aman’s Criminal Investigation Department (JSJ)
in two individual houses and factories in the state. “A total of
19 cars including luxury cars, five 3 ton trucks, 1,332 cigarette
boxes and RM 9,645 cash were seized in a series of raids,” he
told a press conference at Mersing District Police Headquarters
(IPD).
Read more: Bharian Online (Malaysia)
Japan12 October 2018: Yamato Holdings Co.
has reached a basic agreement with a major
U.S. helicopter manufacturer to develop an
unmanned “flying truck” capable of transporting
goods via air. It aims to start commercial use of
the vehicles by the mid-2020s. Yamato reached the agreement
with U.S.-based Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. According to the
two companies, the unmanned aircraft will fly at speeds of at
least 160 kph and carry cargo of up to about 450 kilograms.
Bell will develop the aircraft itself, while Yamato will construct
the cargo container. The companies will produce a prototype
by August 2019 and conduct test flights. The unmanned plane
is faster than a truck, immune to traffic jams and not bound to
road and railway routes, benefits that are expected to reduce
costs. Yamato hopes to use unmanned aircraft to solve the
shortage of truck drivers and other workers that has plagued the
transport industry.
Read more: The Japan News
Bangladesh10 October 2018: A three-day truckers
strike at Chittagong Port to protest a new
traffic liability law in the Dhaka division led
to the disruption of the transport of nearly
5,000 export containers to the off docks near
the port. The strike was called off on Tuesday evening after
talks with government officials following assurances that their
demands and concerns will be discussed. The new law states
that a driver will be sentenced to up to five years in prison
for killing any person on the road unintentionally and will be
sentenced to death if found to have killed someone on the road
intentionally.
Read more: Journal of Commerce
China/Uzbekistan3 October 2018: Uzbekistan and China are one
step closer to constructing the China-Kyrgyzstan-
Uzbekistan railway line, a new branch of New Silk
Road that opens another, shorter route to Iran.
The counterparts agreed to sign a Memorandum of Cooperation
in the railway sector, which contains clauses about this new
railway corridor. The China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway
line has been discussed since the end of the 1990s. In 2003,
the feasibility study was prepared. Initially, the construction of
the 900-kilometre line was evaluated at a cost of €1.1 billion
Euros but later this amount increased to €1.7 billion. Now, the
estimated cost of the project is €5–6 billion.
Read more: RailFreight.com
India8 October 2018: Personnel of the New Guwahati
outpost of Government Railway Police (GRP) arrested
eight suspects in connection with the theft of around
15,000 cartons of milk. According to the GRP, the
suspects are conspirators, receivers and abettors who
were involved in stealing the milk packets after Hijacking a
truck from New Guwahati Railway Station. The truck was also
recovered during the operation.
Read more: Northeast Now (India)
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North & South America
Brazil10 October 2018: A police operation in the
states of Paraná, Mato Grosso, São Paulo,
Bahia, Goiás, Pernambuco, Federal District,
and Santa Catarina resulted in the arrest
of forty members of a criminal organization
involved in drug trafficking, cargo theft, receiving and collusion
of drivers. The main focus of cargo theft and collusion of drivers
was in the state of Santa Catarina, particularly the region of
Joinville. Stolen loads were traded by receivers. This money
served to pay for drug trafficking in other states. It was found
that many reported cargo thefts in the state of Santa Catarina
were in fact carried out by the drivers themselves.
Read more: Globo G1 (Brazil)
5 October 2018: A load of televisions valued
at one million five hundred thousand reais
was taken in Santa Isabel. According to
the driver, he was driving along the Dutra
Highway when he was forced to stop by another truck. One of
the criminals entered the cabin, and told him to continue driving.
Police found the thieves with the truck and driver in the parking
lot of a restaurant after a complaint. Three criminals were
arrested and the load was recovered.
Read more: Globo G1 (Brazil)
5 October 2018: A truck laden with meat,
cheese and fish was traveling from Recife to
Sapé when it was approached by criminals
on the BR-230 highway in the Santa Rita
region. The criminals drove a vehicle in front
of the truck, forcing the driver to stop. The armed men took
the driver and his helper to a forest area in the same city. The
criminals claimed to want only the load of meat and only took
this product. According to them, the robbery had been ordered.
Read more: Globo G1 (Brazil)
2 October 2018: Police have identified a gang
suspected of stealing soybeans and falsifying
invoices. The drivers were always approached
in the same place, a rubber factory near the toll
of BR 277 Highway, in São José dos Pinhais,
while they slept inside the trucks loaded with soy. After the
drivers surrendered, one of the bandits assumed the driving
of the trucks and so they continued heading towards Curitiba,
stopping on the roadside of BR 277. There they removed the
drivers of the trucks and took them to a forest near the highway,
where they remained until later in the morning. The gang used a
company that produces the falsified invoices.
Read more: Bem Paraná (Brazil)
Mexico7 October 2018: A group of armed men
hijacked a trailer transporting Pharmaceuticals
valued at $1,000,000 MXN. The company
was able to detect the route deviation via
their GPS monitoring system. Authorities were
alerted and later located the cargo unit about 800 meters off
of km 203 of highway Puebla-Orizaba. The driver was located
shortly after, wounded but alive.
7 October 2018: Yet another trailer was looted
after being involved in a traffic accident in the state
of Veracruz. The trailer overturned at km 295+500
of highway México-Veracruz, presumably because
of a brake failure. It was only a matter of minutes
before a group of men, women, and children began carrying
off the cartons of beer, completely closing off circulation of the
highway. Authorities were unable to intervene, leaving the mob
of people free to take as much beer as they could carry.
4 October 2018: Residents of Tamazulápam
del Progreso, Oaxaca have requested that
authorities investigate a group of female students
accused of Hijacking cargo vehicles in order to
steal their merchandise. Videos are circulating on
social media depicting a group of females covering their faces
with articles of clothing as they usher trailers into the facilities
of a local school for teachers. Residents report that this has
happened on several occasions, most recently when the group
detained several vehicles transporting Food & Drinks and other
products before moving them onto the school’s property.
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4 October 2018: Federal Police assisted
in the recovery of a trailer intercepted at
kilometer 171 of highway México-Veracruz.
The truck driver indicated that a red sedan
with police lights had attempted to pull him
over. Suspecting that it was an attempted Hijacking, the driver
refused to stop. Luckily, the criminals decided to flee when
they saw Federal Police officers approaching. Hours earlier,
authorities had confronted criminals staging a fake police
checkpoint along the same highway. Even more alarming is that
the criminal group was operating in broad daylight.
U.S. & Canada11 October 2018: The U.S. government
has outlined a six-part plan that it will use to
inform future policy on autonomous vehicles,
after the Department of Transportation (DOT)
published an eighty-page document on the
technology that it said could “transform mobility” and “improve
safety”. Billed as a clear and consistent Federal approach to
shaping policy for automated vehicles—and with input from
manufacturers and technology developers, infrastructure owners
and transport—the report said that the focus should be on
removing the “unnecessary barriers that could stifle innovation”.
Read more: Transport Security World
6 October 2018: An undocumented immigrant
allegedly linked to a cargo theft investigation that
has yielded almost $25,000 worth of stolen tequila
was arrested. Police in Laredo, Texas, received a
report stating that a pallet containing 1,014 bottles of tequila
was stolen from inside a trailer. The case was assigned to the
Laredo Police Department auto theft task force. The task force
conducted surveillance after a man began advertising on social
media that he had large quantities of tequila for sale, police
said. They investigated a sale of tequila and tracked suspects
in the case back to a residence, where police initiated a search.
Authorities continued their surveillance and conducted a traffic
stop on a suspect vehicle, which led them to an apartment.
Authorities said they found several cases of tequila at each
residence.
Read more: WPTZ-TV (Plattsburgh, NY)
5 October 2018: Over 150 new 2019 bikes
were stolen from a company warehouse. The
brazen overnight theft in Vancouver saw a
shipping container that was on the company’s grounds, emptied
during the night. This theft will have a significant negative impact
on the company’s customers who are expecting their orders to
be delivered in the coming weeks.
Read more: Cycling Magazine
5 October 2018: A Florida man has been
convicted for the December 2016 theft of a truck
load of carpet worth $160,000. After a weeklong
trial, the jury convicted the man on two counts of
cargo theft.
Read more: WDEF-TV (Chattanooga, TN)
18 Oct 2018
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