Global Intelligence Note SUPPLY CHAIN INTELLIGENCE CENTER 15 June 2018 Formerly known as FreightWatch International
The SensiGuard™ Supply Chain Intelligence Center (SCIC) presents a summary of major incidents and news articles EMEA relating to cargo theft and intelligence for the week ending 15 June 2018. The Netherlands EMEA The Netherlands...... 1 13 June 2018: Cargo criminals are currently active United Arab Emirates...... 2 in the area between Roosendaal, NL and Breda, Kenya...... 2 NL. A transport and logistics operator’s site was the victim of an incident in which cargo was stolen Germany...... 2 from a pre-loaded trailer. Vigilance and pre-checks Italy...... 2 should always be carried out when parking at any location United Kingdom...... 3 whether it is a truck parking facility or on a carrier company’s South Africa...... 3 premises. APAC Source: K&N Ring Alert China...... 4 China/Turkey...... 4 India...... 4 12 June 2018: The construction of the Container Exchange Route (CER) in the Port of Rotterdam North & South America will commence in the last quarter of this year. Brazil...... 5 The transport solution is expected to make the Mexico...... 6 exchange of containers more efficient, and will enable bundling Argentina...... 6 of smaller rail volumes so that rail operators can optimise U.S. & Canada...... 6 their port call. The CER entails a 11.5 kilometre concrete road connecting the deep-sea container terminals, empty container depots, distribution companies, and customs at the Maasvlakte. Multi-trailer trucks will be deployed to transport the cargo to one or several collection points. Read more: RailFreight.com
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7 June 2018: A cash van security guard told the 13 June 2018: Fifty-seven thousand products that Dubai Criminal Court that after stealing Dhs5m, he did not comply with the safety standards were handed Dhs3m to a female mastermind and lost seized by the officials of the Customs Agency and Dhs2m to a thief. The guard was leading a security Monopoli (Rome) with the collaboration of the Nas services company’s cash delivery team comprising of a peer and della Carabinieri Nas della Capitale. The products included toys, a van driver. He stole Dhs5,090,171. Besides embezzlement, household items and electrical products all lacking required prosecutors accused him of abusing duties to harm interests of safety certifications, and several thousand items of costume the company and client money shops. jewelry and clothing accessories containing toxic chemicals. Read more: Gulf Today (UAE) Those responsible have been reported. Read more: Carabinieri (Italy)
12 June 2018: Police were on the lookout Kenya following the theft of a full truckload of car parts and accessories from a company near Vezzano 11 June 2018: Unprecedented operational Ligure (Liguria). The truck was found shortly afterwards in hitches at the Nairobi inland container depot have the south direction between Santo Stefano and Sarzana in the been blamed for the pileup of cargo along the emergency lane. As they were examining the truck, they noticed transportation chain, threatening Kenya’s position a van similar to one reportedly near the company at the time as a regional transportation hub. The chaos of the theft. When the driver noticed the interest of the police, at the port of Mombasa has culminated in the reorganisation he accelerated. A chase followed for approximately 10 km and of the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) top management, with the ended when the van crashed. There were five occupants which managing director being sent on compulsory leave. Shippers, fled the scene. The driver was the only one apprehended. logistics firms and clearing agents say improving operations at Read more: La Spezia (Italy) the port will not succeed if the issues are not sorted out. Read more: The East African (Kenya) 9 June 2018: An arrest has been made of a criminal gang believed to have been responsible for multiple thefts of photovoltaic (solar) panels and copper from many different locations in Italy, Germany and also receiving stolen goods in countries abroad. The public prosecutor of Udine issued arrest warrants for twenty-one 14 June 2018: Police in Hamm (North Rhine- suspects in total, with twelve being arrested. Five were arrested Westphalia) have arrested two individuals that are in Udine and Turin, and the remaining seven were caught in believed to have been responsible for 220 incidents Romania, Sweden and Germany. Also, following searches of of theft from semi-trailers on the two motorway where they were camped in Italy, law enforcement discovered service stations in Rhynern and other service areas nearly €300,000 worth of photovoltaic panels which have now in North Rhine-Westphalia and The Netherlands since March been seized. 2017. Other accomplices may also be arrested as a result. Read more: Messaggero Veneto (Italy) Thefts include nine pallets of coffee machines, liquid detergent, and up to 80 flat screen TVs. The number of thefts rose rapidly. The perpetrators apparently sought out specific trucks that were not secured with alarm systems. Since their arrests, the incidents have stopped at the service stations in Rhynern. Read more: Westfälische Anzeiger (Germany)
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13 June 2018: Forwarders claim to have been 14 June 2018: Cash-in-Transit heists will lead to ‘left in the dark’ over delays to rail, road and cash losses of R470m this year if the current trend shipside container movements at the port of continues, the Portfolio Committee on Police heard Felixstowe, linked to implementation of a on Wednesday. The meeting brought together a new IT system. The port installed the nGen range of stakeholders concerned with Cash-in-Transit heists, terminal system, but despite claiming a “successful migration”, including the South African Banking Risk Information Centre carriers have reported severe delays and cancellations. A (Sabric). Forty-nine vehicles have been lost so far this year, at a customer advisory was issued, warning of “severe delays and cost of R64m to the industry, according to Sabric’s presentation cancellations across all areas of port operations, including rail, to the committee. According to Sabric’s statistics, injuries road and shipside container moves”. suffered by Cash-in-Transit guards rose by 82% this year with Read more: The Loadstar (U.K.) 62 guards injured. Read more: Huffington Post
8 June 2018: A Network Rail employee who stole more than £10k of copper cable from a 12 June 2018: Cash-in-Transit (CIT) industry Crewe rail depot has been jailed for one year workers marched to the Department of Community following a British Transport Police investigation. Safety Department in Johannesburg following A second man also pleaded guilty and was handed a 12-month the recent spate of attacks on cash vans. CIT community order, 100 hours unpaid work, 35 days rehabilitation companies SBV, G4S and Fidelity handed over a memorandum activity requirement, and a £85 victim surcharge for his part with a number of grievances addressed to the South African in the crime. The employee gained access to the site office Reserve Bank, the Department of Transport, and Department where he took keys to a works vehicle and picked up the other of Justice. The union’s message to employers and authorities man from the van which was parked at the entrance. CCTV was clear: workers are demanding better working conditions captured the pair driving the works vehicle to a goods store and proper equipment to deal with daily robberies. Workers are where a heavy drum of cable was lifted onto the vehicle. The complaining that criminals are armed with big guns when guards vehicle then disappeared for approximately two hours before only have pistols. They want the firearms acts to be amended to returning. However, the pair was unaware that the vehicle had allow CIT guards to carry higher caliber firearms and for industry been fitted with a tracking device which led police straight to bosses to get stronger vehicles that can withstand bombings. the employee’s home address in Stockport. He was arrested on Workers promised to strike if their demands were not met. suspicion of theft of cable and theft of the Network Rail van. Read more: eNCA (South Africa) Read more: Crewe Chronicle (U.K.)
11 June 2018: A courier truck offloading 8 June 2018: Cyberattacks targeting a stock outside Walmer Park Shopping Centre shipping navigation system could be used in Port Elizabeth was Hijacked. Eastern Cape to block the English Channel, a security Police spokesperson Priscilla Naidu said it was researcher has warned. Ken Munro, a alleged that the driver and his passenger were consultant at Pen Test Partners, said system busy offloading parcels for delivery when they were accosted vulnerabilities and “poor security hygiene” (such as leaving by three men, two of which were armed with guns. Naidu administrator passwords as default) could allow a hacker to said the driver and his passenger were shoved in the back. change a ship’s course, make the ship appear to jump position, One of the suspects then drove off the courier van followed or make it appear to be bigger than it really is. He said using by the other two suspects in a bakkie. “The hijacked vehicle these techniques, a hacker could trigger another ship’s collision stopped in Charlo where only the parcels containing cellphones alarm, invariably causing the ship’s captain to take action. were loaded into the bakkie. The driver and his passenger’s Read more: CIPS: Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply cellphones were also taken. The estimated value of the cellphones is R 150,000. (€9,639).” Read more: eNCA (South Africa)
sensitech.com SCIC Global Intelligence Note 15 June 2018 3 11 June 2018: Three Germiston Flying Squad India police officers are in custody after allegedly Kidnapping‚ Hijacking and robbing drivers of two 12 June 2018: The Indian logistics industry is vehicles in Krugersdorp West. Gauteng police in the middle of a technological evolution. Quite spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Lungelo Dlamini like its Western counterparts and its rival across said the suspects had stopped the truck driver and his escort. the border, the Indian logistics sector has been “The driver of an escort vehicle‚ was forced out of his vehicle witnessing a multitude of changes ever since and ordered into a police vehicle. One of the police officers it woke up to the reality of e-commerce a decade back. The also jumped into the truck and forced the driver to sit on the industry is now grappling with the idea of increasing visibility passenger seat. The victims were driven into an open field and and traceability, while also looking at building freight capacity forced to lie on the ground while firearms were pointed at them. as volume growth explodes across the country. Said Naval They were also robbed of a substantial amount of money before Sabharwal, the Global Supply Chain Head at Ramco, a logistics the officers drove away,” Dlamini said. major from India, “the pressing problem that the industry faces Read more: Times Live (South Africa) now and is likely to face in the near future is the capacity fragmentation across the country. Relegating that capacity and optimizing them is one of the biggest challenges that the industry is facing at the back end.” APAC Read more: FreightWaves.com
9 June 2018: A city-based edible oil firm owner lodged a complaint with the Sola police station China stating that Rs 93,000 cash was stolen from his truck by some unidentified person when it was 12 June 2018: Rising fuel prices and strikes parked in Gota area of Ahmedabad on 6 June. Harat Patel, have hit China’s truck market. Truckers across owner of Ankur Oil Industries, received a call from his truck the country have staged mass protests and driver that an amount of Rs 93,651, collected from various refused to work over the weekend. They claim dealers had been stolen from his truck parked in Gota. The cash transport fees are no longer sustainable in the was kept in a compartment next to the driver’s seat. face of rising fuel costs. One striking driver told Radio Free Asia Read more: India Times the protests were also linked to a rising sense of job insecurity, exacerbated by the introduction of bidding systems for loads. 6 June 2018: The government is likely to Read more: The Loadstar (U.K.) sustain a loss of Rs 10 billion revenue each day as the All India Confederation of Goods Vehicles Owner’s Association (ACOGOA) has threatened to go on an indefinite strike starting 18 June. China/Turkey “The state and Union governments will lose Rs 10 billion revenue each day on diesel sales only as the total tax collected is Rs 38 11 June 2018: A new railway service has been per litre. In addition, there will be a total economic crisis as raw launched on the Middle Corridor, a relatively material and finished goods will not reach the destination,” said new route between China and Europe, as part Rajinder Singh, secretary general of ACOGOA. of the Belt and Road initiative (BRI). Hong Kong- Read more: Business Standard (India) based Kerry Logistics operates the westbound service, linking the eastern Chinese city of Lianyungang with Turkey. The new service runs through Kazakhstan to cross the Caspian Sea, from where it will hit the newly-built Baku–Tbilisi–Kars railway. Read more: RailFreight.com
sensitech.com SCIC Global Intelligence Note 15 June 2018 4 9 June 2018: Fifteen criminals broke into the North & South compound of a major carrier at Porto Alegre. The gang used a truck to knock down the company America gate, then entered with two trucks and seven cars in the company yard. The guards surrendered, and another truck was used to close the street. Employees were lined up next to the vehicle as a shield to prevent being fired Brazil upon by the police. The criminals stole a load of cell phones, other unknown products, and the guards’ guns. The loss is 12 June 2018: The tax inspectors of the estimated at more than 1 million reais (about USD $295,000). Federal Revenue Service in the Port of Santos Police consider the possibility that it is the same gang that decided to extend the strike until 30 June, robbed the carrier two months prior. although it is expected to finish on the 13th. Read more: Gaúchazh Segurança (Brazil) There will be no physical check of cargoes or customs clearance until this date. Auditors have been on strike since November 2017, and have used the movement May 2018: The establishment of a minimum to pressure the Federal Government to implement the wage price for freight was one of the claims made agreement signed with the category over a year ago. Only by truckers during the recent strike that lasted hospital products and live loads are released by the auditors. about eleven days. The measure, however, The other goods are not checked and await clearance in the came to be criticized by the productive sector, terminals’ courtyards. for causing an increase in costs. There are already about forty Read more: A Tribuna (Brazil) lawsuits challenging the tabulation, and the repercussions of the impasse are felt in the productive chain. For example, the Association of Cereal Companies of the State of Rio Grande do 11 June 2018: The Special Secretariat Sul states that the transportation of goods such as soybeans for Strategic Affairs released a report on has practically stopped. It is currently carried out only with a “Economic Costs of Crime in Brazil”. According fleet of companies in the sector—insufficient to outflow cargoes. to the report, the economic costs with combat and with the According to the technical director of the Superintendence of consequences of crime in the country have risen from R $ 113 the Port of Rio Grande, the daily circulation of trucks fell, on billion to R $ 285 billion between 1996 and 2015. This amounts average, 50% in the complex. According to Fiergs (Federation of to an average real increase of about 4.5% per year. The study Industries of the State of Rio Grande do Sul), about 80% of the also points out that the costs of crime in Brazil correspond segments that make up the industry of Rio Grande do Sul have to 4.38% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Despite the difficulties in freight transportation, and the impact is greater significant increase in public security spending over the past 20 on products with lower prices, especially food. The institution years, crime rates have continued to rise. estimates that, on some routes, setting minimum prices can Read more: Empresa Brasil de Comunicação (Brazil) raise company spending by up to 150%. The producers in the Midwest are also failing to sell their crop because of freight 10 June 2018: An operation carried out by prices. police in the city of Ceilândia resulted in the arrest of four criminals and recovery of R $ 2.5 million (about USD $735,000) in stolen cargo. Three others were arrested in Águas Lindas de Goiás city. The operation was the result of a four-month investigation. The gang operated around the Federal District, stole loads of food and cleaning products, was well-organized, and had specific people responsible for each activity (approaching drivers, taking the stolen truck to the warehouse, storing the goods and reselling them to traders in the region). Read more: Metrópoles (Brazil) sensitech.com SCIC Global Intelligence Note 15 June 2018 5 Mexico Argentina
11 June 2018: The report of a fire in Mineral 14 June 2018: In the wake of Brazil and China, de la Reforma, Pachuca, in which one Argentina now appears to be preparing for a person was killed, led to the discovery of a trucking strike as its drivers demand a 27% home being used not only as a warehouse for pay increase. Local media has reported that stolen fuel, but also for the cultivation of marijuana. Upon further the pay demand is to offset an annual inflation inspection of the property, authorities also located a tunnel that rate of 20%, which is expected to grow further following a presumably led to an illegal fuel extraction site, although this has $50bn bailout package from the IMF. Opposition to the bailout yet to be confirmed. This is one of two such tunnels found in the saw trade unions march through Buenos Aires last week, area in the past year. with Argentine Truck Drivers Association head Pablo Moyano threatening further action.
10 June 2018: Authorities in the state of Read more: The Loadstar (U.K.) Puebla assure that there are no plans to back down in their fight against fuel theft. In the last week alone, authorities implemented thirty- seven operations which resulted in the following: U.S. & Canada • Recovery of 84,278 liters of stolen fuel; • Confiscation of 59 vehicles used for its illegal extraction 12 June 2018: In Vancouver, now the world’s and transport; 45th-largest container shipping port, the • 4 arrests; exportation of stolen goods and the importation • Sealing of 168 illegal extraction points of illicit drugs and other contraband continues From January 2017 to date, coordinated efforts between local to be a major challenge for port operations and enforcement. authorities have led to the recovery of 6,768,191 liters of stolen Smuggling through Canadian ports is not new. A January 2011 fuel. Public Safety Canada report prepared by Presidia Security Consulting concluded that Canada’s three largest ports – Vancouver, Montreal and Halifax – are the most vulnerable to 9 June 2018: A truck driver was killed as he inbound and outbound smuggling. tried to escape an attempted Hijacking. While Read more: Business in Vancouver travelling along highway Puebla-Orizaba, around kilometer 192, assailants fired at the driver at least twice, causing him to lose control of 12 June 2018: The U.S. Department of the truck. The trailer broke through the concrete barrier into Homeland Security (DHS) has implemented its air oncoming traffic where it collided with three other tractor trailers. cargo advanced screening (ACAS) requirements Luckily, the only person injured was the victim of the attempted for cargo entering the country following the assault, however, it is believed that his death was a result of the completion of a pilot program. In an interim final rule making gunfire, not the collision. coming into force today, the DHS has required that air cargo data is submitted to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) before the aircraft is loaded, as opposed to current requirements 7 June 2018: An attempted robbery was flustered that the information is provided four hours before arrival. by the criminal himself when he drove the stolen Read more: Air Cargo News truck into the roof of a local bus station. It was at a stoplight in the center of Tlalplan, Mexico City that a man threatened the truck driver with a gun, forcing him out of the cab. The collision occurred almost as soon as the criminal took control of the unit, practically splitting the 53’ dry van in two. He immediately fled the scene, where the police arrived moments later to take the cargo unit into custody.
sensitech.com SCIC Global Intelligence Note 15 June 2018 6 11 June 2018: The Kenosha, Wisconsin County 8 June 2018: Cameras recorded a bandit taking Sheriff’s Department is seeking an Illinois man off with a large shipping container with loot inside alleged to have been involved in the theft of two worth thousands of dollars, and the victim is semi-tractors from one business and a semitrailer stepping forward to contribute to the reward money. loaded with thirty lawn mowers valued at more than The burglar used a yellow 18-wheeler truck to steal $75,000 from another. An employee said a semitrailer loaded the shipping container filled from a Miami scrap metal yard near with new mowers was taken. The missing trailer—without the Northwest North River Drive and 28th Street. mowers—was later recovered in Calumet Park, Ill. Read more: WSVN-TV (Miami, FL) Read more: Kenosha News (Kenosha, WI)
7 June 2018: The threat of cyberattacks 11 June 2018: In the country’s busiest oil patch, to the trucking and logistics industries is where the rig count has climbed by nearly one- real, the number of attacks is growing, and third in the past year, drillers, service providers, and each attack has the potential to cripple a trucking companies have been poaching in all corners, company. Small and midsize businesses recruiting everyone from police officers to grocery clerks. Many are especially vulnerable because crooks look at them as low- bus drivers with the Ector County (Texas) Independent School hanging fruit. The most common attack methods are through District in nearby Odessa quit for the shale fields, sometimes phishing via email, smishing via text messages, and vishing by causing kids to be late to class. The oil industry has such a using phones. A criminal may seek the truck to steal its freight, ferocious appetite for workers that it’ll hire just about anyone to shut it down or to control it in some way. One fear is that with the most basic skills. “A CDL is a golden ticket around criminals will use a USB device with timer-activated malware here,” said Steve Sauceda, who runs the workforce training installed that gets passed around by drivers, leading to multiple program at New Mexico Junior College. “You are employable vehicles being shut down simultaneously. just about anywhere.” Read more: Transport Topics Read more: Los Angeles Times
7 June 2018: The turnover rate at 8 June 2018: Deputies and investigators with large truckload carriers increased in the Kaufman County (Texas) Sheriff’s Office, while Q1-2018, reflecting how fleets are working with Agents with the Texas Department of struggling to retain and recruit new drivers as freight demand Public Safety, recovered a truck tractor, semi-trailer rises. The annualized turnover rate jumped by six points to 94% and its contents which were reported stolen from a through the first four months of 2018, 20% higher than it was in secured lot in Memphis, Tenn. The tractor truck, semi-trailer and Q1-2017. “The uptick in turnover is consistent with continued its contents have an estimated value of $248,812.00. tightness in the market for drivers,” said Bob Costello, ATA Read more: Terrell Tribune (Terrell, TX) chief economist. “Anecdotally, carriers continue to struggle both recruiting and retaining quality drivers – leading to increasing wages. The tight driver market should continue and will be a source of concern for carriers in the months ahead.” Read more: TruckingInfo.com
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