Global Intelligence Note SUPPLY CHAIN INTELLIGENCE CENTER 11 May 2018 Formerly Known As Freightwatch International
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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. United Kingdom EMEA United Kingdom .......................................................................1 4 May 2018: Fifty crocodiles have Poland ......................................................................................1 been seized at Heathrow airport after Italy ..........................................................................................2 their transport conditions breached regulations. The year-old reptiles, which arrived on a flight from France ......................................................................................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.) sensitech.com Italy France 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 Carabinieri. 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 Border Police 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) sensitech.com SCIC Global Intelligence Note 11 May 2018 2 Denmark Ghana 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