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SUPPLY CHAININTELLIGENCE CENTER
Global Intelligence Note16 February 2018
The SensiGuard ™ Supply Chain Intelligence Center (SCIC)
presents a summary of major incidents and news articles
relating to cargo theft and intelligence for the week ending
16 February 2018.
EMEA
France/Switzerland ...................................................................1
Belgium/The Netherlands .........................................................1
Germany ..................................................................................2
United Kingdom .......................................................................2
Italy ..........................................................................................2
Spain ........................................................................................2
South Africa..............................................................................3
Czech Republic ........................................................................3
APAC
India .........................................................................................3
Philippines ................................................................................3
North & South America
Brazil ........................................................................................4
Mexico .....................................................................................4
U.S. & Canada .........................................................................5
EMEA
France/Switzerland13 February 2018: French police have arrested
a cash van driver and his daughter, who claimed
she was held to ransom while a gang robbed
millions from her father’s vehicle in Switzerland.
The father, daughter, and a colleague of the
father were taken into custody in Lyon on Monday, four days
after they reported being the victims of a heist. The 22-year-old
daughter told police she was kidnapped from her apartment
in the southeastern French city of Lyon by two men posing as
plumbers. She said the men bundled her into a car, tied her
up and forced her to telephone her father who works for SOS
Surveillance, a Swiss company that transports cash in armoured
vans, to demand a ransom. The daughter was found unharmed
at around 10:00 pm on a road outside Lyon and appeared “very
shocked” by her ordeal, police said at the time. Investigators
now appear to suspect it was an inside job.
Read more: The Local (Switzerland)
Belgium/The Netherlands16 February 2018: The ports of Rotterdam
and Antwerp are bracing for the worst effects of
Brexit: the huge cost of adjusting customs and
inspection procedures and new infrastructure
investment to avoid serous supply chain delays after next March.
Read more: The Loadstar (U.K.)
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Germany14 February 2018: A truck that was parked
over night at a truck stop in Lehre (Lower
Saxony) had its trailer curtain cut and a
quarter of its cargo stolen. The stolen property
was 130 boxes of high quality sportswear worth approximately
€40,000.
7 February 2018: After being targeted many
times over the last couple of years by cargo
criminals (often stealing very high value cargo
loads), the truck stop Autohof Strängenbach in
Lippetal (North Rhine-Westphalia) has announced their new
“Premium Parking.” For an additional fee on top of the normal
parking charge, this upgraded “security” consists of access and
departure possible only via barriers, and twenty-five cameras
capturing the trucks completely while they are parked. Time will
tell if this added security will actually make a major difference.
Read more: Westfälische Anzeiger (Germany)
4 February 2018: Two trucks had their
trailer curtains cut in Freudenberg (North
Rhine-Westphalia). From one of the trailers,
approximately eighty coffee capsule machines
worth about €5,000 were taken.
United Kingdom13 February 2018: NaVCIS have informed the
SCIC of numerous fuel thefts occurring along the
A421, just south of Bedford (Bedfordshire).
Since the end of 2017, trucks that have parked in
laybys along this route have been targeted and have had diesel
stolen on many occasions. This often occurs while the driver is
still asleep in the truck.
12 February 2018: NaVCIS have informed the
SCIC of an incident that occurred in an industrial
estate in Rugby (West Midlands). Police disturbed
four criminals who had cut the trailer curtains on
four parked trucks. They chased them on foot and
all were arrested near the scene. A large goods vehicle (LGV)
was discovered with cloned number plates and had stolen
products on board.
Italy7 February 2018: Police have discovered part of
a guardrail dismantled along the A14 in Foggia.
It is believed this had been done by criminals
who were going to hijack a truck carrying a high
value load. The discovery allowed the police to
patrol the area, thus preventing any planned attack on any truck.
Read more: Foggia Città Aperta (Italy)
3 February 2018: Early this month there was an
attempt to hijack a Cash-in-Transit van in Brindisi
(Apulia). The criminals used trucks, bulldozers and
a car to block the road, even setting some of them
on fire. The Cash-in-Transit truck, containing almost €2 million in
cash and gold, was bumped by another truck and three different
cars trying to stop it, and also had to avoid all the vehicles
put across the road. The driver prevented the criminals from
stopping him on this occasion.
Read more: La Gazetta del Mezzogiorno (Italy)
February 2018: Criminals stole over 400
packages of pharmaceutical products from
a hospital pharmacy in Cosenza (Calabria
region). The stolen products contain strong
medical ingredients as well as pre-filled syringes which are
believed to now be circulating on the black market.
Spain13 February 2018: A record amount of rail
traffic helped the Port of Barcelona deliver its
best-ever freight results in 2017, and confirmed
its status as one of Europe’s fastest-growing
ports. Official figures from the port authority management show
the port registered 243,585 TEUs of rail traffic – containers
which arrived or left the port by train – last year, an 8% year-on-
year increase.
Read more: RailFreight.com
February 2018: A truck which had parked overnight
was broken into at the parking location “Gustum
Area” on the C-25 near Gurb (north of Barcelona).
Forty-two boxes of Electronics were stolen.
Source: K&N Ring Alert
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South Africa13 February 2018: A tracking team received
intelligence information about suspects which
had been involved in a Cash-In-Transit theft in
Motetema (Limpopo). The vehicle that they
were travelling in was intercepted and stopped near Witbank
(Mpumalanga). Three men were found onboard along with ten
mobile phones, one small pistol, and ink-stained R200 notes.
13 February 2018: A truck was hijacked
on the N3 near Heidelberg (Gauteng) by
criminals who were using a car disguised as a
Metro Police car. They took the truck which contained a cargo
of Personal Care items. The truck has since been recovered but
the trailer and cargo are still missing.
12 February 2018: A cash services company hailed
the twenty-year sentences handed out to thirteen
robbers who carried out the infamous 2014 armed
heist at their Witbank depot in which a reported
R104 million (over €7million) was stolen.
5 February 2018: Two dramatic shootouts between
tactical police units and suspected Cash-in-Transit
robbers left as many as nine men dead in KwaZulu-
Natal. It is understood that six alleged CIT robbers
were killed during an exchange of fire with police on the R617
– which runs between Boston and Bulwer in the KZN Midlands.
Later, police intercepted a vehicle travelling on the N3 near the
Mariannhill Toll Plaza. Three men were killed and a fourth was
injured.
Read more: Times Live (South Africa)
Czech RepublicFebruary 2018: Criminals have stolen a full
truckload of high value cargo in Pardubice,
(124km east of Prague). The truck was blue in
colour (Reg: 6H1 2414) and the trailer was white
(Reg: 4H3 3460). Police continue to investigate
and require support in locating this.
Source: K&N Ring Alert
APAC
India11 February 2018: Robbers armed with
knives allegedly took away more than 1,700
bags of rice from a warehouse at Jagraon
(Punjab). The warehouse is located near a
school on the Ludhiana-Ferozepur highway. The estimated value
of the stolen rice is stated to be more than Rs 20 lakh (approx.
€20,000).
Read more: TribuneIndia.com
31 January 2018: Frequent incidents of theft
of crude oil from pipelines by crime syndicates
have emerged as a headache for various oil
companies and police. Oil smugglers are targeting
the pipeline that carries crude oil from Paradip to Haldia and
further to Barauni. Oil theft has been a nagging problem for
some time. On 14 December, oil theft came to light after an oil
tanker carrying about 20,000 litres of crude oil overturned on the
NH-60 near Rupsa.
Read more: TelegraphIndia.com
Philippines22 January 2018: The volume of cargo at
the country’s ports registered flat growth from
January–November 2017, according to the
Philippine Ports Authority.
Read more: Philippine Star (Philippines)
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North & South America
Brazil16 February 2018: President Temer announced
the decision to enact federal intervention in public
security in Rio de Janeiro State. The civil and
military police and fire brigade will be subordinate
to the Army, in the figure of General Commander of the Eastern
Military Command. He should exercise all acts of management
of the area and responds to the president of the Republic.
Security experts discuss whether this will be an effective
measure to address security issues in the state.
13 February 2018: Criminals entered a plant in
Paraguaçu Paulista, forcing the employees to
surrender after doing the same to the security
guard at the main entrance. All the night shift
workers were tied up and locked in a van. The criminals stayed
all night, loaded a truck with agricultural pesticides, then fled.
Read more: Globo G1 (Brazil)
12 February 2018: A large gang that operated in
the theft of millions of dollars of cargo in the states
of Santa Catarina, Paraná, and São Paulo were
recently discovered. The gang stole every kind of
product, then passed it on to an intermediary who
found a buyer. They counted on the participation of truck drivers
who passed information about their cargo (types of products,
where the products were, value). Those drivers pretended to
have been the victims of theft, but actually delivered the cargo to
members of the gang in exchange for 10% of the cargo value.
Police found more than 15,000 videos and audios exchanged
between members on the cell phone of one of the gang’s
leaders.
Read more: Globo G1 (Brazil)
12 February 2018: According to reports from Cash-
in-Transit transporters, the number of attacks on
Cash-in-Transit vehicles in 2017 increased by 58%
compared to 2016. There were 108 cases in 2017—
one every three days.
Read more: O Globo (Brazil)
4 February 2018: At the beginning of February,
the work of restoring and strengthening the
dock at the Port of Santos was finished. The
conclusion of the services will allow the arrival
of larger ships, giving gain of scale and productivity for the
terminals that operate in the largest Port of Latin America,
besides reducing logistics costs and decongesting other
accesses. The Port of Santos carries a third of the products
handled in the country.
Read more: Export News (Brazil)
Mexico14 February 2018: Atlacomulco Federal Police
secured a brown GMC van with plates UMD832A
with four gunmen onboard on kilometer 118 on
highway Toluca-Palmillas. Inside the vehicle they
found a jammer, a weapon (0.9 mm), thirteen bullets, three black
masks, and police lights.
13 February 2018: An alert sent to a sentinel
platform allowed the seizure of a criminal
warehouse in Guanajuato, where two men were
arrested. Inside the facility were three vehicles
which were stolen in previous days in the cities of Celaya and
Salamanca.
12 February 2018: A truck and trailer loaded
with sugar was hijacked by a white van with four
gunmen onboard on highway Mexico-Veracruz
(MEX-150D) in Cotaxtla, Veracruz. Two of the
gunmen were dressed as Federal Police Officers.
The truck and trailer was recovered by Federal Police a few
hours later on the same highway.
11 February 2018: Federal Police arrested nine
cargo thieves in San Lorenzo Chiautzingo,
Puebla, after receiving the report of the theft
of a 3½-ton van loaded with pharmaceuticals
on highway México-Veracruz (MEX-150D). A GPS device
embedded in the cargo allowed the Federal Police to recover
the stolen cargo inside a criminal warehouse, where four
vehicles, six weapons, and two jammers were also found.
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10 February 2018: A cargo theft gang has been
identified that stole cargo trucks in the city of
Celaya, Guanajuato, on the highways Celaya-
Dolores Hidalgo (MEX-51) and Celaya-Juventino
Rosas (MEX-67) near chemical companies. Their
modus operandi involves two to three gunmen, dressed as
police officers, onboard vans making use of signal jammers.
U.S. & Canada15 February 2018: IBM and Maersk announced
a partnership recently and provided details on a
Blockchain-based logistics platform that would
apply artificial intelligence, connected devices
(IoT), and intelligent, proactive analytics that could foundationally
improve upon the supply chain as we know it.
Read more: Manufacturing.net
15 February 2018: Certified Freight Logistics,
Inc. (CFL), in partnership with Truckers Against
Trafficking (TAT), is launching an education
program for its drivers and employees to help
them learn about human trafficking and how to fight it. TAT is a
grass roots, non-profit organization seeking to educate, equip,
empower, and mobilize members of the trucking and related
industries to combat human trafficking.
Read more: PR Newswire
15 February 2018: A new report from analyst firm
Ti, Automotive Supply Chain and Logistics 2018,
investigates current and future automotive sector
trends and found that logistics in the automotive
sector is undergoing more change than at any time in the past
forty years.
Read more: Material Handling & Logistics
15 February 2018: The Port of Oakland today
reported that containerized export volume in
January 2017 increased 2.1% from January
2016. It was the second consecutive month of
export growth at the port.
Read more: Logistics Management
14 February 2018: An annual report
compiled by the SensiGuard Supply
Chain Intelligence Center (SCIC)
indicates that the number of recorded
cargo thefts in the U.S. dropped to 649 in 2017, a 15% decline
in volume from 2016 – roughly averaging out to 54 thefts per
month in the U.S. or about two per day last year.
Read more: Trucker.com
8 February 2018: Four men from the New
Jersey counties of Middlesex, Somerset and
Union have been arrested, and others are
being sought in connection with the theft
of about $80,000 worth of cargo from a North Union Avenue
beverage packing company.
Read more: MyCentralJersey.com
21 Feb 2018