Global Intelligence Note SUPPLY CHAIN INTELLIGENCE CENTER 11 May 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 11 May 2018. EMEA United Kingdom...... 1 4 May 2018: Fifty crocodiles have Poland...... 1 been seized at after Italy...... 2 their transport conditions breached regulations. The year-old reptiles, which arrived on a flight from ...... 2 Malaysia, had fought each other during the journey due to South Africa...... 2 their cramped circumstances. Each of the five transportation Denmark...... 3 boxes used had room for four crocodiles, but ten foot-long Switzerland...... 3 animals were in each one. A Border Force spokesman said “little Saziland/Mozambique...... 3 attention” had been paid to the crocodiles’ welfare. Ghana...... 3 Read more: BBC News APAC Asia Pacific...... 3 Pakistan/Japan...... 4 India...... 4 North & South America Poland

Brazil...... 4 10 May 2018: A truck full of liquid chocolate Mexico...... 5 overturned on a motorway, spilling twelve U.S. & Canada...... 5 tonnes of the sweet stuff all over the road. Traffic was blocked in both directions of the A2 motorway between the towns of Wrzesnia and Slupca in Western Poland, a road connecting the major cities of Poznan and Warsaw. No one was gravely injured as a result of the accident, but the driver of the truck was taken to hospital with a broken arm. It is not clear as yet what caused the tanker truck to overturn and fall onto its side across the median. Local police said by the time cleanup crews had arrived the liquid had begun to solidify, making the operation more difficult. Read more: Independent (U.K.)

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11 May 2018: A truck filled with stolen goods 4 May 2018: A truck containing 200 boxes was abandoned on the A2 near the Polla of branded clothing in the colours of PSG motorway junction. Criminals had stolen the (Paris St Germain soccer club) was attacked goods from a company in the industrial area at Bonneuil-sur-Marne. The driver of a truck of Tito, PZ (Basilicata). Some of the product is reported was going to deliver his cargo to a company in the area of the to be Pharmaceuticals worth €40,000 which were ready for port of Bonneuil when he was robbed. He was driving along delivery. The criminals were intercepted by the traffic police from the Moulin-Bateau road when three people on board a truck Sala Consilina, so they abandoned the truck and fled into the pretended to stop him to ask for information. By the time the adjacent countryside. Police continue to investigate driver responded, a fourth accomplice climbed into his cabin Read more: Ondanews (Italy) on the passenger side and threatened him with a weapon. The criminals’ truck then went behind the victim’s truck in order

10 May 2018: A driver who had arrived to unload all the cargo. The value of the theft was around to his destination in Cossato (Piedmont) €700,000. found his truck was empty and immediately Read more: Le Parisien (France) alerted the . Upon first investigation, they traced his journey back to where he stopped 4 May 2018: A team of tobacco traffickers was for a break approximately 20 km away at a restaurant/bar in arrested in the Quantinière district in Trélazé. Carisio. It is suspected that it was here that the two pallets of The police recovered 300 cartons of cigarettes cosmetics were taken from his trailer. (3,000 pack) with a resale value between €20,000 – €30,000. Read more: News Biella (Italy) The five men had no documentation to explain the origin of the cigarettes. Twelve days prior to this recovery, another tobacco

8 May 2018: Police finally caught up with the delivery truck was hijacked in La Séguinière, with 120 cartons criminal gang that had been stealing full trailer of cigarettes stolen worth around €240,000. Police continue to loads from the Port of Ancona (Marche). investigate a possible link between the two incidents. Six full trailer loads had been taken between Read more: Ouest France October 2017 and March 2018. The targeted trailers belonged to companies from other European countries that were left in an interchange area beside the Port of Ancona. The criminal group took advantage of the unattended stops of these trailers South Africa by hooking up the trailers to their own vehicles and driving away. It is believed that the gang already had buyers for the stolen 30 April 2018: Insurance claims due to violent goods before committing the thefts. Some of the criminal group protests and riots are up by almost 31%. Not a would check the highways for police checks in order to ensure day seems to go by without news of a violent they weren’t stopped. But three members of the gang were protest erupting somewhere across South finally caught after removing a trailer of cheese (22 tons) worth Africa—reports of violence, looting, burning €400,000 that was destined for the United Kingdom. Members and destruction have become regular occurrences, with many of the Mobile Squad and the managed to block businesses and private individuals left with the devastating the truck driver with the stolen trailer while he was heading consequences and financial losses. Since the beginning of 2017, towards the highway. An unmarked police car was able to also South Africa has experienced thousands of violent protests and arrest two others who were acting as “spotters.” riots across the country, many spurred on by service delivery Read more: Foggia Today (Italy) failures, corruption and growing youth unemployment—and all exacerbated by criminal elements. Read more: Truck & Freight (South Africa)

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9 May 2018: A truck driver stopped for 5 May 2018: A gang of six heavily armed men his overnight break at parking location attacked and robbed cargo trucks travelling Knudshoved between Nyborg and Slagelse. the Mamfe to Koforidua highway. Three of the During the night, criminals broke into the robbers were wielding pistols while the others trailer and stole nearly one ton of its cargo of food products. The were armed with single-barrel guns. They incident location is close to Storebæltsbroen Belt Bridge and is mounted an early morning road block at Amanprobi community an unsupervised parking area. along the Mamfe to Adawso stretch of road and attempted to Source: K&N Ring Alert rob about five cargo trucks they had stopped. However, their operation was foiled by the Police Patrol Team from Akropong

7 May 2018: Carriers/drivers that use the Fynske District Police command who, after receiving distress calls Motorvej between Frederica and Odense need to about the incident, quickly rushed to the scene. The armed be aware of current cargo theft incidents occurring robbers, however, bolted into the bush upon seeing the Police there. On the parking location Fynske Motorvej 571, approaching. near Nørre Aaby, criminals cut the trailer curtains Read more: GhanaWeb on a truck parked there and stole a small quantity of cargo. Although the quantity is small it is important to highlight the increase in cargo theft incidents reported in Denmark of late. APAC Another incident was more recently reported where a truck parked at a fenced parking location on an industrial estate between Frederica and Odense. Criminals cut the trailer’s curtain and stole cargo from it. Source: K&N Ring Alert Asia Pacific

May 2018: One piracy attack and two armed robberies against ships were reported in Asia in April; the total number of incidents reported Switzerland during January-April 2018 was the lowest in this time period for the past ten years. According to 7 May 2018: Organised criminals are currently the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and active in Aargau County. The criminal gangs’ focus Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCAAP), in April 2018 is on burglaries from commercial buildings among there were no reports of crew abductions in the Sulu-Celebes other crimes. A special warning has been issued Sea, and no ship hijackings for oil cargo theft. Of the three for the area between Baden and Zurich. incidents reported last month, one was a CAT 3 incident that Source: K&N Ring Alert occurred at Muara Berau anchorage, Indonesia, one was a CAT 4 incident that occurred in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore (off Pulau Batam, Indonesia) and one was an attempted piracy incident that occurred in the South China Sea. During January- Swaziland/Mozambique April 2018, a total of twenty-one incidents were reported, of which fourteen were actual incidents and seven were attempted 7 May 2018: Swaziland’s police are warning incidents. The total number of incidents reported during of rampant smuggling along the border with January-April 2018 was the lowest among the ten-year reporting Mozambique, noting that goods worth more than period of January-April of 2009-2018. Compared to January- $ 450,000 have illegally crossed the porous border April 2017, there was a 32% decrease in the total number of of the two neighboring countries of southern Africa incidents reported during January-April 2018. A total of thirty- in the last two years. one incidents were reported during January-April 2017. Read more: Agence de Presse Africaine Read more: BunkerSpot

sensitech.com SCIC Global Intelligence Note 11 May 2018 3 Pakistan/Japan North & South 11 May 2018: Japan’s Ambassador to Pakistan Takashi Kurai said “his country stands with America Pakistan in combating international criminal syndicates which through their illicit activities hinder economic development and prosperity of the Pakistani people.” Addressing media after an event at the United Nations Brazil Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC), the ambassador reaffirmed 3 May 2018: The are reinforcing Japan’s commitment to assist Pakistan in eradicating all types security on the BR-070 between the cities of of transnational organized crime including illicit drug trafficking. Cuiabá and Cáceres after receiving information The projects aimed at enhancing air cargo security, combating related to assaults in the region. Assaults occur transnational organized crime, strengthening border security when drivers slow down or stop their vehicles in against illicit drug trafficking and response to counter-terrorism order to aid the criminals who call for help, simulating a kind of are to be implemented under UNODC Country Programme for mechanical crash. Pakistan (2016-2019) through financial support of government Read more: Globo G1 (Brazil) of Japan. Read more: Daily Times (Pakistan) May 2018: The city of Campinas has 102 locations with restrictions of deliveries by the Post Office for lack of security, including high risk of theft. In some India cases, mail only leaves the distribution center with armed escort. In the limited number of CEPs, there are three 9 May 2018: India is eyeing an ambitious shift in forms of service: delivery with escort support, increased deadline shipping logistics with an ‘Uber-like’ facility that for delivery, or withdrawal at a distribution center. could radically change the way merchandise is Read more: Globo G1 (Brazil) moved into or out of ports. This ‘Uberisation’ (as officials call it now) at sea ports is set to begin with India’s May 2018: Cargo thefts rose between 11% and largest container port, the Jawaharlal Nehru Port in Mumbai. 15% in the state of Minas Gerais in Q1-2018. The government has invited requests for proposal for creating In the state, the most critical highways are this system, which would allow an importer or exporter to select BR-381 Highway, between São Gonçalo do Rio Abaixo and a trucker via his phone app to transport goods directly from port João Monlevade cities; BR-040 Highway, between Sete Lagoas to warehouse. and Três Marias cities; and BR-135 Highway, between the Read more: The Economic Times (India) BR-040 exit and Corinto.

May 2018: According to Goiás police, theft of fuel loads has reduced by more than 70% in recent weeks. No occurrences were recorded between April and early May. The average used to be 4–5 events per week. The integration of the police forces would be contributing to this result.

May 2018: Due to the upcoming World Cup, an increase in television cargo theft volume has been recorded. Since the beginning of May, SensiGuard has registered four such robberies in São Paulo, Paraná and Amazonas States, including a warehouse break-in. sensitech.com SCIC Global Intelligence Note 11 May 2018 4 Mexico 4 May 2018: Federal Police arrested seven people while they were unloading dairy products from a truck 9 May 2018: Train robbers in Veracruz have and trailer on the shoulder of kilometer 83 on highway come up with a new way to halting a freight train Queretaro-Leon (MEX-45D) at the Salamanca tollbooth to steal its contents—they pulled up part of the in Guanajuato. Among the arrested were a truck driver, track. The subsequent derailment occurred in three men and three women. Acultzingo, sending four cars and the locomotive off the rails. All five cars were damaged, but there were no injuries. With the train inoperable, the thieves proceeded to unload and make off with the unknown cargo. Ongoing train robberies in the area U.S. & Canada have triggered patrols by the National Gendarmerie. Read more: Mexico News Daily 9 May 2018: A local businesswoman is offering a reward to help find a stolen trailer

9 May 2018: The GPS signal from a stolen with thousands of dollars’ worth of furniture tractor and trailer led Police to a warehouse in inside. Robin Culberhouse, who owns Robin’s the city of Apodaca, Nuevo Leon, where they Furniture, has been in business for 22 years. Her store sits right located 27 additional cargo units. on Edgewood Avenue South, where she caters to customers looking for high-end furniture at discount prices. Read more: WJAX-TV (Jacksonville, FL) 8 May 2018: A man who driving a garbage truck loaded with 88 boxes of cosmetics was arrested in the city of Iztapalapa, 8 May 2018: At an event hosted by the Center Mexico City. The cargo was stolen a few for Supply Chain Studies at Johns Hopkins hours before and was destined to be sold in a local flea market. University, biopharma industry leaders, Blockchain service providers, and members of the FDA gathered to learn about proof-of-concept (POC) 7 May 2018: A GPS signal placed a stolen pilots for the industry and discuss how the technology could be truck in the city of Huixcolotla, Puebla. When practically implemented to comply with the Drug Supply Chain Federal Police arrived at the location where the Security Act’s (DSCSA) track-and-trace mandate. But when six GPS was positioning, they were met with gun fire. Cargo thieves teams—named after six different colors—presented their PoC burned the cargo unit to escape. pilot missions to industry decision makers, they spurred more questions than answers. 6 May 2018: State Police seized a criminal warehouse Read more: Supply Chain DIVE in the city of Amatlan de los Reyes, Veracruz, due to GPS signal of a truck and trailer stolen days before 7 May 2018: A man accused of stealing more than on highway Mexico-Veracruz (MEX-150D). Twenty-five $12,000 worth of electronic devices from a Vernon thousand liters of milk were recovered in the warehouse. Hills, Illinois warehouse is scheduled to appear in court Thursday. Police say officials at CDW, 200 N. 5 May 2018: Residents of the Americo Villareal Milwaukee Ave., reported on Jan. 9 that more than neighborhood advised authorities of a burnt- a dozen electronic products were missing from the company’s out flatbed which was stolen a few days before. warehouse. The missing items included smartphones, watches Criminals had already unloaded the cargo of and computers, according to police reports, and were groceries. collectively valued at over $12,000. Read more: Chicago Tribune

sensitech.com SCIC Global Intelligence Note 11 May 2018 5 5 May 2018: A former or current employee of Fiat Chrysler may have assisted with the pre-dawn heist of eight new Ram 1500 trucks from Warren Truck Assembly Plant (Warren, Michigan) parking lot. The fleet of Ram trucks vanished from a gated storage lot that holds vehicles destined for delivery to dealerships. A security guard reported the theft at 3:51 a.m. as the trucks turned south onto Mound Road. The thieves drove to the plant in a 2003 Ram truck they stole from a residence in Warren, offloaded drivers, and cut a hole in the plant’s chain link fence to get into the yard. Read more: Detroit Free Press

4 May 2018: Police say a man, driving a transport truck, broke into a compound in Hamilton, Ontario and allegedly made off with a trailer loaded with kitty litter. They say the truck was tracked to a gas station where the suspect entered the store and was caught on video. It’s alleged he then drove to Cambridge, where he abandoned the trailer and broke into another business. Read more: CKWX-AM (Vancouver, BC)

4 May 2018: Cargo thieves have made off with a shipment of an Octapharma product used to protect immune-suppressed individuals from serious diseases. The full truckload (FTL) shipment of Octagam (human normal immunoglobulin solution for intravenous infusion) included 1,300 packs of the product – worth around $1m – and was taken from a truck stop located off I-65 in Cornersville, Tennessee. The driver of the truck stopped to fuel up but discovered the tractor, trailer and shipment were missing when he returned to the vehicle. Read more: Securing Industry

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