Global Intelligence Note SUPPLY CHAIN INTELLIGENCE CENTER 26 October 2018 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 26 October 2018. EMEA United Kingdom United Kingdom ...................................................................... 1 Germany ................................................................................. 2 24 October 2018: A truck carrying £30,000 worth Poland ..................................................................................... 2 of stolen goods was stopped near Meadowhall The Netherlands ...................................................................... 2 as part of a cross-border police operation involving Romania .................................................................................. 3 air support. South Yorkshire Police’s Operational Italy ......................................................................................... 3 Support team was made aware of the 17-and-a-half Nigeria ..................................................................................... 3 tonne HGV heading towards South Yorkshire at around 3:00 France ..................................................................................... 3 a.m. on Tuesday. Officers believed the truck had been used “in a Austria ..................................................................................... 3 significant theft in Northants”. APAC Read more: Rotterham Advertiser (U.K.) China (Hong Kong) .................................................................. 4 China ....................................................................................... 4 17 October 2018: Police officers are Japan ...................................................................................... 4 appealing for witnesses following the theft North & South America of computing equipment from a lorry on the Brazil ....................................................................................... 4 A5 layby near Lilbourne, Daventry. The Mexico .................................................................................... 5 incident happened on Monday, 1 October, when a truck parked U.S. & Canada ........................................................................ 5 in the layby had its side curtain slashed and a large amount of computing equipment stolen from within. Read more: Northamptonshire Police (U.K.) sensitech.com Germany 20 October 2018: A 38-year-old Polish citizen was in court for involvement in a cargo theft gang 23 October 2018: Highway investigators of responsible for a theft in a parking lot on the A38. the traffic police Schweinfurt-Werneck arrested The gang had rented vehicles in Poland to steal three alleged “curtain slashers” suspected goods from trucks. From a Czech truck, they stole toy building of having damaged numerous trucks at block kits valued at €6000, which could be resold for up to Rastanlage Rhön, on the A7 near Schondra (Bavaria). A truck €53,000 on the black market. The damage to the tarpaulin was driver had dialed the emergency police number after discovering about €450. The defendant had driven the van with the stolen a slit on the tarpaulin of his semitrailer. At the rest stop, officials goods. Later he was picked up by other gang members. The counted a total of thirty-four trucks, on which the tarpaulins of police found the van with the stolen goods. the semitrailers were slashed; this later increased to forty-seven. Read more: Thüringer Allgemeine (Germany) The resulting property damage is likely to amount to several thousand euros. On Thursday evening, the highway investigators 19 October 2018: Unknown perpetrators were finally successful—they stopped a suspicious car in slashed the tarpaulins of three trucks at parking Werneck which was manned by three men. During the check, lots on the A7. On the Rastanlage Göttingen- police suspected that the men could be connected with the Ost (municipality Rosdorf), the thieves slit damage at the Rhön; the officers secured items in the vehicle the tarpaulins of two semi-trailers. In one case, the offenders that suggest such crimes. captured an undisclosed amount of vacuum cleaners from the Read more: Nordbayern (Germany) back of a vehicle in the district Rotenberg (Wümme). The same night, at the parking lot Staufenberg (District of Göttingen), 23 October 2018: German police in Saarlouis the loading area of a German semitrailer was hit. Here the released four adults and one child from a perpetrators stole a few packs of detergents. refrigerated truck in which they were trapped. Read more: Eichsfelder Nachrichten (Germany) According to the police, they were migrants who were trapped in the truck and were in mortal danger. Authorities are now investigating alleged smugglers who reportedly gave the group access to the Polish truck. Poland Read more: Luxemburger Wort (Luxembourg) 25 October 2018: Carriers and drivers should 21 October 2018: Leipzig Halle Airport is be aware of a current security risk along the expanding: New taxiways and aircraft parking route between Szczecin–Koszalin–Gdansk. spaces will be created for a large logistics Police authorities are currently carrying out an provider. In parking lots, so-called “tarpaulin investigation and loaded trailers should not be left unattended. slashers” repeatedly clear out entire truck loads of high-quality Source: K&N Ring Alert goods overnight. Recently, tarpaulin slashers stole 200 TV sets on the A 14 at Könnern. Read more: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (Germany) The Netherlands 23 October 2018: The low water level in the Rhine gives truck drivers more work because inland vessels are less heavily loaded. This increased demand also leads to more headaches for road hauliers. Road transporters are mainly being offered more containers. Because there are tight timetables for trucks at seaport container terminals, there is a threat of congestion. Read more: Nieuws.NL (The Netherlands) sensitech.com SCIC Global Intelligence Note 26 October 2018 2 Romania France 22 October 2018: Cargo thefts have been reported 17 October 2018: A truck was robbed near the from a rest area location in Sadova Veche, roundabout of Europe, leading to the airport of Independent Slatina-Timis, Motorway 6 (E70) in Lyon Saint-Exupéry in the town of Colombier- South West Romania between Timisoara and the Saugnieu. It is believed the truck was discreetly Serbian border crossing. The incident location has followed after leaving a warehouse. The driver was ten truck parking spots along with a fuel station and restaurant. forced to stop on the route and then forced out of his cabin. Source: K&N Ring Alert One of the perpetrators then took the wheel of the truck while his accomplices rushed into their car, before disappearing with a cargo of electronic products valued at several hundred thousand euros. Italy Read more: Le Dauphine (France) 19 October 2018: After a driver made a collection for international delivery from a warehouse in Verdello (Lombardy), he inquired if could he Austria make his mandatory night break in the safety of the facility yard, but was turned down. Instead, the 26 October 2018: While on route between security guard advised the driver to park across the street next Innsbruck and Kufstein, a truck driver to a public street. During the night criminals arrived and broke was overtaken by a silver car in which the the rear door security lock. They entered the trailer and stole passenger signaled him to stop at the next numerous pallets of cargo. The driver claims he woke up with a parking area. Both the driver and passenger headache. of the car were wearing high-visibility vests with police markings Source: K&N Ring Alert on them. The truck driver eventually stopped at the rest area Volders/Karlskirche. The male and female “officers” checked on some of the truck driver’s documentation and ordered him to pay a penalty. They also ordered him to wait for a further length Nigeria of time at this location as they left. Carriers and drivers should be vigilant around the presence of criminals disguised as police 17 October 2018: A Tinubu Magistrates’ Court in officials. Lagos sentenced a truck driver and his friend to prison Source: K&N Ring Alert for the theft of a container-load of milk worth N25.5 million. The accused are facing a two-count charge of 20 October 2018: The slashed tarpaulin of conspiracy and theft. The Prosecutor told the court that a semitrailer on a freight train revealed eight the truck driver was hired by the company to transport the milk migrants who wanted to travel illegally across from Apapa to its warehouse at Costain in the Iponri area of the border. Policemen noticed the damaged Lagos. He alleged that when the accused got to the warehouse, tarpaulin in the sightseeing control in Brenner-Seehof; looking the warehouse workers could not offload the contents of the more closely, they found the men, ages 22–36. The men were container because it was late, instructing the driver to come provisionally arrested. back in the morning for his truck. He said that instead, the Read more: Tiroler Tageszeitung (Austria) man allegedly called his friend to meet him at the warehouse at midnight with a buyer. Read more: The Eagle Online (Nigeria) sensitech.com SCIC Global Intelligence Note 26 October 2018 3 APAC India 27 October 2018: Three armed robbers allegedly looted cash worth Rs. 1 crore from a private Delhi- bound truck on the Jammu-Pathankot