Global Intelligence Note SUPPLY CHAIN INTELLIGENCE CENTER 16 March 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 16 March 2018. United Arab Emirates EMEA United Arab Emirates...... 1 12 March 2018: Three men were in court to face ...... 2 charges of a 20 May theft where they broke into South Africa...... 2 a warehouse in Dubai belonging to an electronics company and stole 600 mobile phones worth Spain...... 2 Dh290,000 (€64,000). The company’s manager said he visited Belgium...... 2 the warehouse after being told of the theft. “We checked CCTV Germany...... 3 footage and saw a number of masked men breaking and Belgium/Germany/The Netherlands...... 3 entering then stealing the phones, one of them didn’t enter and United Kingdom...... 3 he was not masked, another was holding an iron bar,” said the Hungary...... 3 manager who called police. Italy...... 3 Read more: The National (UAE) Finland/Norway...... 4 Russia...... 4 11 March 2018: With smugglers getting smarter Ethiopia...... 4 with their criminal methods, the Dubai Police APAC and Dubai Customs are always a few steps India...... 4 ahead of them, thanks to advanced and smart China...... 5 technology. The two forces have been employing North & South America hi-tech means to track and bust drug smugglers and crime rings Brazil...... 5 entering the UAE. The banned substances have been detected Mexico...... 5 no matter how they’re hidden—toys, diapers, the human U.S. & Canada...... 6 body, and even almonds are just some of the spots used for concealment. The police and customs held the first-of-its-kind forum to better detect certain offences in particular, such as drug smuggling and trafficking, counterfeit goods, and the ivory trade. Read more: Khaleej Times (UAE)

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9 March 2018: Six armed criminals were 12 March 2018: The Hawks are investigating a arrested while they were emptying a truck which syndicate believed to be behind the hijacking of was filled with high end computer equipment cargo trucks from the Durban area. The Durban in the Garonor industrial estate in Aulnay- Chamber of Commerce and Industry argued sous-Bois (Île-de-France). The police had been following this Durban could run the risk of being seen as unsafe cargo theft gang for several days and had been staking out by investors, which could affect the economy if these hijackings the industrial estate at the time of the theft. The gang used a continued. Last month, the Reaction Unit South Africa (Rusa) frequency jammer, which they used to prevent the automatic recovered a refrigerated container loaded with frozen pork worth locking of vehicle doors so that they could gain entry easily. Two nearly R2 million. The container was stolen during a truck heist police vehicles were damaged during the arrests. and recovered at a Mount Edgecombe warehouse. Rusa’s Read more: Le Parisien (France) operations manager said he believed there was a syndicate targeting containers containing specific cargo.

8 March 2018: Five suspects have been Read more: Independent Media (South Africa) arrested in connection to the 15 February theft of shoes in Gallargues-le-Montueux (Occitanie). On that date, a truck arrived to a sportswear company’s warehouse with a purchase order to Spain load 33 pallets of shoes and sportswear from the well-known brand. The loaded truck departed, and a few hours later another 12 March 2018: The ISIS terrorist organisation truck arrived at the warehouse with another purchase order for released a statement encouraging supporters the same cargo. It was then that the warehouse staff suspected to carry out attacks in Spain using, if necessary, they had been the victim of a scam with the first truck. They a truck or knife. Their propaganda poster quickly carried out some checks and verifications only to displays the famous Roman-Catholic church Sagrada Familia in discover the first purchase order was a fake. Police have since Barcelona. The last attack in Spain occurred on 17 August 2017 investigated and discovered that an employee of the warehouse in Barcelona and further south in Cambrils. is believed to have acted with his father, who is a well-known Source: K&N Ring Alert criminal in the Marseille area, along with three other accomplices to carry out this theft. Read more: France 3 Belgium 8 March 2018: A number of cargo thefts in the 12 March 2018: European airports are continuing south-east of () has prompted to record bumper growth, with Brussels Airport a local police official to call for vigilance. There Company (BAC) announcing a €100m-investment have been three incidents at truck parking areas in new logistics facilities. News of the investment between Vernon and Evreux: St Aquilin de broke on Friday, with the likes of Dnata, Kuehne + Nagel and Pacy, and Fains. In one of these a number of LCD Swissport reportedly in line to take space in the facility. Chief televisions were taken. The police from Pacy sur Eure and executive of BAC Arnaud Feist said the investment was of “huge have implemented patrols to help secure parking areas importance” to the country’s logistics plans and fell in line with for these trucks but there is also a call for drivers and hauliers to the airport’s Strategic Vision 2040 plan. be vigilant Read more: The Loadstar (U.K.) Read more: France 3

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12 March 2018: Unknown criminals have 12 March 2018: Budapest Airport saw its cargo stolen a truck’s trailer from a company throughput reach a record high of 127,145 tonnes premises in Schwabach (Bavaria). It in 2017. The figure represents a rise of 13.4% contained over 6,000 pairs of work shoes in comparison to 2016—and 2018 is off to a worth around €200,000. The semi-trailer had an Austrian similarly encouraging start, with January and February volumes registration with a grey tarpaulin and a pink company inscription up 17.4% over the same two months of last year at 21,750 on it. tonnes. The Hungarian gateway cited its expanded e-commerce capabilities as a driver of growth in its cargo traffic. It opened

8 March 2018: A truck and trailer were stolen two new express facilities totaling 16,000 sq. m in the summer from a company in Dorsten (North Rhine- of 2017, as part of its €160 million BUD: 2020 Development Westphalia) during the early hours. The trailer Programme. had already been loaded with a cargo of Read more: Air Cargo News potting soil which was destined to be delivered to a customer. The total value is believed to be around €200,000. Italy

13 March 2018: Six men have been arrested in Belgium/Germany/ Gricignano d’Aversa, Caserta (Campania) as The Netherlands they were emptying a truck of its high-value load of air conditioning units. The value of the load is 13 March 2018: The discussion about the believed to be around €150,000. The driver of the truck, who re-opening of the Iron Rhine or Steel Rhine has worked for a logistics and transport company from Naples, is re-opened. Last week, the German and Flemish suspected of being involved as it is believed that he handed the governments joined hands in making an appeal truck over to the six men; they were arrested before he would for the re-opening of the railway line, connecting the Port of claim that he had been the victim of a theft. He would then have Antwerp to Germany through the Dutch province of Limburg. profited from a portion of the money obtained from the resale of They did so addressing the Dutch government, which has been the goods. When the men saw the Carabinieri approaching they reluctant towards the project so far. fled to the surrounding countryside but all were later located and Read more: RailFreight.com arrested.

13 March 2018: A tornado has left eight people injured, one seriously, in southern Italy United Kingdom close to the city of Caserta, north of Naples. The whirlwind also caused severe damage 6 March 2018: More than 1.5 million powerful across several nearby towns, uprooting trees and knocking over prescription painkillers were stolen from a business and road signs and lamp posts. The tornado swept truck parked at the Hartshead Moor motorway across the Caserta area for around half an hour, with wind service station in West Yorkshire. Tramadol speeds reaching 220 km/h. A truck parked at a service station is a strong painkiller that is potentially addictive and can kill was upturned by the strong winds, while six parked caravans if abused. West Yorkshire Police (WYP) urged people not to were also thrown through the air, obstructing part of the nearby take the stolen drugs. The 15,072 packs, each containing 100 A1 motorway. tablets, were taken from a truck at a service station on the M62 Read more: The Local (Italy) in West Yorkshire between 22:00 GMT on 6 March and 05:00 on 7 March. Read more: BBC News

sensitech.com SCIC Global Intelligence Note 16 March 2018 3 Finland/Norway APAC 13 March 2018: Finland and Norway are exploring the possibility of developing a rail freight link between the northern Finnish town of Rovaniemi and the ice-free Norwegian Port India of Kirkenes. The line would be the first rail link between an EU state and an Arctic port. Arctic shipping routes are opening up 13 February 2018: Union Minister Suresh Prabhu as a result of recent climate changes. said today that he has asked civil aviation ministry Read more: RailFreight.com officials to prepare a plan for providing air cargo support to agricultural hubs to promote farm exports. The commerce and industry minister, who also holds additional charge of the civil aviation ministry, said that draft policy to increase agricultural exports is ready and is being Russia circulated for inter-ministerial views. 15 March 2018: Gold bars and gems worth Read more: The Economic Times (India) millions of dollars have fallen out of a plane taking off in the Russian region of Yakutia, 10 March 2018: Officials of the Directorate of famous for its rich natural resources and diamond deposits. Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) conducted Photos circulating on social media appear to show gold bars a surprise raid at KK Nagar Regional Transport wrapped in material scattered on the runway at Yakutsk Airport, Office resulting in a seizure of unaccounted cash in the country’s major diamond-producing region. The precious worth about Rs 3.4 lakh. DVAC officials said that the raid was metals fell from the Nimbus Airlines An-12 plane when its cargo conducted after their office received several complaints about hatch accidentally flew open upon takeoff. bribery in K K Nagar RTO. Three months ago, DVAC conducted Read more: RT (Russia) a statewide raid at RTO’s and seized unaccounted cash worth Rs.15 lakh and documents in a single day. Read more: Deccan Chronicle (India)

Ethiopia 9 March 2018: The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has penalized three of the country’s 7 March 2018: Ethiopia’s defense minister airlines for what it says was concerted action announced the arrests of the “main instigators” in fixing and revising fuel surcharge (FSC), a linked to anti-government protests roiling the component of freight charges. The CCI issued its final order country, insisting that armed federal patrols were following an investigation after complaints that airlines were trying to minimize violence. At least a handful of operating a cartel. civilian deaths have been reported over the last several days. Read more: Air Transport World Read more: Voice of America

sensitech.com SCIC Global Intelligence Note 16 March 2018 4 China 11 March 2018: The increase in violence has led companies in the state of Rio de Janeiro 8 March 2018: The Shanghai Civil Affairs to change their routine. A number of measures Bureau has warned that the city roads have been taken to reduce insecurity, such as will be chock-a-block with traffic for the Qingming Festival changing shifts (so employees leave the company next month. The bureau said that traffic will worsen between before dusk), changes in the time when companies receive 31 March and 7 April, when an estimated 6.66 million people the raw material, and the goods leave from factory. They have head out to the cemeteries to pay respects to departed family also increased the use of armored vehicles to increase safety in members. There will be an extra 840,000 vehicles on the roads transporting high-ranking officials in the city. between March 31 and April 7. Read more: Jornal Correio de Povo de Alagoas (Brazil) Read more: Shanghai Daily (China)

8 March 2018: Attacks on truck drivers continue 7 March 2018: Customs in the southern to occur on highways in the region of Jundiaí, metropolis of Guangzhou have detained despite a slight reduction in the number of cargo fourteen people in connection with a smuggling thefts in the comparison between January 2018 case involving frozen seafood. Customs staff has confiscated and 2017. Police recorded nine cases in January 20 tonnes of the products worth 100 million yuan (USD $15.8 2018, against ten in January 2017. In recent days at least one million). An investigation began after police received a tip-off in theft and a pilferage were registered. the first half of 2017. Read more: Jornal de Jundiaí (Brazil) Read more: XinhuaNet (China) Mexico

14 March 2018: Federal Police arrested five North & South cargo thieves after the theft of a box truck America loaded with pharmaceuticals on highway Quiroga-Zacapu in Michoacan.

13 March 2018: Cargo thieves on board an Brazil orange torton hijacked cargo units in transit in the city of Huichapan, Hidalgo on highway 12 March 2018: A load of 500 televisions was Portezuelo-Plamillas (MEX-45). stolen at dawn after the driver and load left a carrier’s facility in the northern part of Porto 12 March 2018: Federal Police arrested Alegre. Police later recovered all the cargo, three cargo thieves in the city of Victoria, valued at 434,000 reais (about USD $135,000), when it was Tamaulipas after the theft of a truck and trailer found in a truck parked at a gas station. loaded with 49 tons of dipsticks. Read more: Diario de Canoas (Brazil)

11 March 2018: State Police found thirteen 12 March 2018: Police arrested members box trucks used by fuel thieves in a criminal of a gang that diverted food cargoes in warehouse located in the city of Santa Rita the state of Goiás. The gang had their Tlahuapan, Puebla. two carriers and drivers pick up the cargo, after getting paid for freight; instead of delivering, they steal the 10 March 2018: Federal Police seized a criminal cargo. After the theft, they then claim they had been victims of warehouse in the city of Acajete, Puebla, after robbery. The investigations began more than a year ago. Police the theft of a truck and trailer on highway Mexico- did not say how many people were arrested. Veracruz (MEX-150D). Read more: DM.com (Brazil) sensitech.com SCIC Global Intelligence Note 16 March 2018 5 9 March 2018: Municipal Police arrested a gang 10 March 2018: U.S. authorities including related to cargo theft in the city of Cuapiaxtla, the Coast Guard, NOAA, and Environmental Tlaxcala. Their modus operandi was to intercept Protection Agency are continuing to monitor and the cargo unit in transit on board another vehicle, track approximately 76 stray cargo containers shooting in the air, forcing the drivers to stop, then stealing the that fell from a Maersk containership about 17 miles off Oregon merchandise. Inlet, North Carolina. Maersk confirmed the total number of containers lost overboard was 76 as well as their contents. A. P. Moller-Maersk reported one of the containers lost at sea was carrying about 5,900 pounds of sulfuric acid. U.S. & Canada Read more: gCaptain.com

14 March 2018: Nearly a dozen men have been 9 March 2018: The Insurance Bureau of Canada arrested in a cargo theft trafficking ring that used (IBC) says cargo theft still remains a significantly stolen tractor-trailers to move more than $1 million unreported crime, due in part to transport in goods meant for retailers across the country to a companies that don’t want to see their insurance New Jersey warehouse, where they were held until premiums increase. What makes it even harder to track cargo they could be sold domestically or overseas. theft is the fact that some police departments have uniform Read more: NBC New York reporting codes for the crime, while others do not. In some cases of cargo theft where damages to property occur—for 12 March 2018: The California Highway Patrol example, a stolen truck being driven through a fence—the call Cargo Theft Interdiction Program in February will come in for the damaged fence, but not the theft. arrested fifteen members of a suspected Read more: Canadian Insurance Top Broker theft crew in Los Angeles County following a seven-month investigation of organized commercial burglary. The total value of 9 March 2018: Waymo is expanding the scope the stolen cargo was more than $1 million. of its self-driving experiments, announcing that its Read more: Transport Topics autonomous trucks would soon begin delivering freight for Google’s data centers in Atlanta. The 11 March 2018: Mark Savage, deputy chief trucks won’t be completely driverless, but will be operating on of the Colorado State Patrol, admits he knows public roads during the pilot, the company said. much more about traffic laws than he does Read more: The Verge about engineering or autonomous technologies.

So when Otto approached the state about its now famous 7 March 2018: Jerrod Nichols Smith, one of three autonomous beer delivery in October 2016, he was initially people indicted in 2013 for a drug wholesaling scam skeptical. However, after extensive discussions and testing, in Tennessee, was convicted last week of fifteen he was won over for a very simple reason—“We understood counts of mail fraud and one count of making false this technology…could save lives. And this is our bottom line,” statements to the FDA. Smith and his co-defendants, Charles Savage said during a panel discussion on automated driving Jeffrey Edwards and Brenda Elise Edwards, were indicted in during the Technology & Maintenance Council’s annual meeting. January 2013 and charged with running a 32-month, $50 million Read more: Fleet Owner drug diversion scheme. The defendants allegedly purchased pharmaceuticals from a network of street collectors who obtained the drugs on the streets of New York and Miami from individuals who had legitimate prescriptions. Read more: Fierce Pharma

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