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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