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SUPPLY CHAININTELLIGENCE CENTER
Global Intelligence Note2 August 2019
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
2 August 2019.
EMEA
Germany ................................................................................. 1
United Kingdom ...................................................................... 2
Italy ......................................................................................... 2
South Africa............................................................................. 2
APAC
India ........................................................................................ 3
Malaysia .................................................................................. 3
Vietnam ................................................................................... 3
Singapore ................................................................................ 3
Asia ......................................................................................... 3
North & South America
Brazil ....................................................................................... 4
Mexico .................................................................................... 4
U.S. & Canada ........................................................................ 5
EMEA
Germany29 July 2019: Police found four migrants in the
back of a sealed trailer. They were alerted by
the truck driver who heard noise coming from
the trailer when he stopped at a repair station
in Amberg, between Nuremberg and the Czech border.
Source: K+N R.I.N.G. Alert
26 July 2019: Unknown people stole a white truck
worth around €20,000 from a company site. The
eye-catching vehicle normally transports gin. An
unknown thief stole the car keys, gaining access
to the 3.5-ton truck, which was parked near a
restaurant. The vehicle has not yet been recovered.
Read more: Baden Online (Germany)
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United Kingdom2 August 2019: A driver for a security firm was
jailed for more than four years for stealing nearly
£1m in cash from one of the firm’s vans. He
admitted theft and concealing the proceeds of
crime and was sentenced to four years and eight months.
Prosecutors said he had arrived for work and picked up his van,
contained 48 containers with £916,190. Rather than delivering
them around the Holborn area of London, the father-of-three
drove the van to Larkhill Rise in Clapham. He then ditched the
vehicle and fled with the cash. Forty-three of the forty-eight
deposit boxes were found missing from the van.
Read more: Infosurhoy (U.K.)
30 July 2019: Police are appealing for witnesses
following the theft of forklift trucks from a
company premises in Patchway. Entry was
forced into the premises in Britannia Road and six
forklift trucks were taken. It is likely that transport, such as a low
loader, was used to transport the forklift trucks from the area.
Read more: Avon and Somerset Police (U.K.)
29 July 2019: A group of unknown offenders
entered the fenced company yard of a
distribution hub that is located between
Manchester and Liverpool. They entered a trailer
that was filled with sports equipment, which they stole.
Source: K+N R.I.N.G. Alert
Italy30 July 2019: A theft worth tens of thousands
of euros occurred at a hospital in Ancona.
Criminals broke into the pharmaceutical
warehouse of the regional hospital to steal
packages of highly expensive Pharmaceuticals. The perpetrators
targeted these specific Pharmaceuticals to sell them on
the parallel market, on the internet, or in gyms (doping and
anabolic), below the market price.
Read more: Ancona Today (Italy)
South Africa1 August 2019: The gang who allegedly shot
and killed a truck driver during a botched
Hijacking last week has been positively linked
to the murder. The arrest comes after a gang—
using flashing blue lights fitted onto a vehicle,
as well as wearing reflective vests—pulled the truck over on the
N2 near the Coega Industrial Development Zone (IDZ) on 22
July. The gang is believed to have been targeting copper worth
about R2m that was being transported from Port Elizabeth to
Johannesburg. The following day, the body of the truck driver
was found alongside the N2 where the hijacking had taken
place. The gang was caught with a network signal-jamming
device plugged into the lighter socket of the truck in what
appears to be a failed attempt to scramble the tracking device
and cellphone signals.
Read more: Herald Live (South Africa)
30 July 2019: A scrapyard owner was arrested
after attempting to bribe City of Johannesburg
law enforcement officers with R50,000 during a
bust which saw stolen copper worth about half a
million rand seized. Following up on information that a truck was
loading suspected stolen copper cables at the facility, the joint-
operation team raided the scrapyard and found a truck with the
load of an estimated street value of R500,000. The driver was
arrested.
Read more: News24 (South Africa)
27 July 2019: Two people were arrested in
Alexandra for cable theft worth R100,000. The
City of Johannesburg’s Group Forensic and
Investigation Service (GFIS) acted on a tip-off
about stolen copper cables. The city’s Lucky Sindane said:
“we received a tip-off that two suspects were storing stolen
copper cables in a certain scrapyard in Alexandra. Our team
went there, searched the property and found two bags of
copper cable valued at R100,000.”
Read more: Eyewitness News (South Africa)
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APAC
India24 July 2019: A complaint about the theft
of a truck containing meat for export was
lodged at the Koratty station. The truck was
later abandoned after the meat was stolen.
The truck was Hijacked at Pongam at night while it was going
from Kochi to Hyderabad to export meat after processing. A
gang arrived in a car, blocked the truck near Punjabi dhaba,
and forcefully pushed its two drivers into the car. One of the
passengers in the car boarded the truck and drove off; the
rest of the workers were thrown out of the truck at Potta in
Chalakudy after driving around the city for more than an hour.
Their mobile phones were seized.
Read more: Mathrubhumi (India)
Malaysia 29 July 2019: Despite constant advice from
the police, the number of people in the state
conned in parcel scams remains high, with a
total of 57 cases and losses amounting to a total
RM2.8mil from Jan. 1 to July 28 this year. This
was an increase from the same period last year, with 51 cases
and losses amounting to RM2.7mil. A total of eleven suspects
had been arrested in connection with the scam in the first seven
months of this year, compared with only two arrests for the
same period last year. A 35-year-old housewife from Kuching
was the latest victim, who lost RM3,000. The woman was
cheated by a female suspect who identified herself as a Cargo
staff member. The woman was told that there was a parcel
for her from the United Kingdom which had been detained by
Customs and she had to pay RM3,000 for the parcel to be
released to her.
Read more: The Star (Malaysia)
Vietnam28 July 2019: Officials discovered 55 pieces of
rhino horn concealed in plaster among cargo
at Hanoi’s Noi Bai Airport earlier this week.
The shipment originated in the United Arab
Emirates, a country considered a major intersection in the animal
trafficking trade. Though Vietnam has outlawed trade in rhino
horn, relegating it to the black market, the country remains
one of its major consumers, as the mistaken belief that it holds
medicinal powers remains common there.
Read more: Gizmodo
Singapore26 July 2019: Asian city-state Singapore
has seen a small fall in container volumes
and a more noticeable fall in containerized
cargo weights in the first half of 2019 when
compared to the same period in 2018.
Singapore is a bellwether for world trade volumes and it does
a substantial amount of business with the U.S. as well. Box
volumes handled through Singapore, the world’s second-busiest
box port with a throughput of 36.6 million twenty foot equivalent
units (TEU) last year, were essentially flat in the first half of 2019
compared to the first half of 2018.
Read more: FreightWaves.com
Asia26 July 2019: After weeks of erosion, Asia-
North Europe container spot rates appear to
have responded to peak season capacity cuts
and are edging back up. The North Europe
component of today’s Shanghai Containerized
Freight Index (SCFI) recorded a 12.2% increase in rates to $754
per teu, while rates for Mediterranean ports were up by a more
modest 3.3%, to $718 per teu.
Read more: The Loadstar (U.K.)
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North & South America
Brazil1 August 2019: The police prevented the theft of
a truck loaded with Electronics on a stretch of the
BR-101 highway in Rio Largo. Armed criminals
overpowered the driver and took him to a forest
area. He remained in captivity until released by the
group that already had the truck in Messias City. Police were
able to locate the truck with the cargo. Gunfire was exchanged
and one of the suspects, the gang member who used to unlock
the truck security systems, was killed in the clash. Four other
men who were at the scene managed to escape.
Read more: Algoas 24 Horas (Brazil)
29 July 2019: The security company responsible
for transporting the 700 kilograms of gold stolen
at Guarulhos Airport on 25 July has sent a letter
to customers stating that it is temporarily shutting
down “at certain airports and specific cases”.
According to the company: “they do not have full autonomy
to define the conditions under which certain operations are
performed within some of the airports.” The company also
says it is disrupting its activities because it does not have “the
freedom to implement the fullness of its operational and security
procedures”. It conducts operations to transport gold, precious
stones and foreign currencies.
Read more: Globo G1 (Brazil)
29 July 2019: Suspects of a cargo theft gang
on BR-101, in Greater Recife, were arrested
during Operation BR Segura, initiated by the
Civil Police. According to the corporation, the
group is related to at least thirty burglaries in a one-year period.
The gang may have carried out at least $1 million with cargo
thefts.
Read more: Globo G1 (Brazil)
Mexico31 July 2019: A video circulating on various
social media platforms shows a group of 40-50
people ransacking a train in Cañada Morelos,
Puebla. In the video, the group of men and
women can be seen using buckets to shovel polyethylene
granules from the train wagons into approximately ten pick-up
trucks lined up beside the train, an operation that took place
without any intervention from authorities. The state of Puebla
currently ranks third in terms of train cargo theft in the country.
31 July 2019: The Secretary of Public Security,
Municipal Transit, and the National Guard
collaborated to recover a stolen trailer in Puebla.
Authorities were alerted of the theft by the driver,
who indicated that a group of armed men stole the
cargo unit from him in the “La Cienega” Industrial Zone and then
drove it into a property nearby. As it turned out, the property
where the trailer was being stored belongs to a business owner
known for buying and selling stolen cargo from local criminal
groups. According to sources in the area, the property and its
owner have been conducting these illegal transactions since
2017.
24 July 2019: A truck driver was murdered
by cargo thieves in Apaseo el Grande,
Guanajuato. It has been reported that the
unidentified man had stopped to eat breakfast
and was intercepted by criminals as he
was heading back to his truck. Though authorities are still
investigating, it is believed that the driver was shot and killed
while resisting the theft.
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U.S. & Canada30 July 2019: A federal grand jury
indicted three Texas men – two
truckers and a state worker – in
connection with a scheme to sell commercial driver’s licenses
(CDLs) without the drivers having to take the required test.
Read more: FreightWaves.com
30 July 2019: Guelph (Ontario) Police initiated
an investigation into a fraudulent theft of meat
from a business on Watson Road South. The
incident involved the theft of a large quantity
of packaged meat. The suspect(s) picked up an order that was
placed, but never delivered it to its destination.
Read more: Guelph Today (Guelph, ON)
28 July 2019: Investigators are looking for three
male suspects after a failed robbery at a cargo yard
in Halton Hills, Ontario, where a lone security
guard was held at gunpoint. Halton Regional Police
say that two trucks without trailers approached the
gates of the yard in the Steeles Avenue and Winston Churchill
Bouelvard area.
Read more: CP24 (Toronto, ON)
25 July 2019: For the second time in one week,
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
officers at Washington Dulles International Airport
seized a khat load from Nigeria that was destined
to Georgia. Officers seized 175 pounds, 11
ounces of khat that arrived in three boxes of air cargo July 19.
The khat was concealed inside silver bags that were comingled
in boxes of clothing. The shipment was manifested as “edible
items.”
Read more: U.S. Customs & Border Protection
25 July 2019: The Los Angeles’ harbor
department has issued an RFP for a new
privately-operated “cyber resilience center” for
the Port of Los Angeles. The build / operate /
maintain contract calls for a center that would coordinate cyber-
defense activity between port stakeholders, reducing the risk of
cargo disruption from a cyberattack.
Read more: Maritime Executive
23 July 2019: Provincial police in Oxford
County, Ontario are searching for a trailer
containing nearly half a million dollars’ worth of
shoes that was stolen from a north Woodstock
parking lot.
Read more: Blackburn News (London, ON)
6 August 2019