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Sep 7, 2015

TRUCK THEFTS WORLDWIDE: World's hot spots - * Brazil: On the rise - ** Canada: 10 M silver stolen truck -- *** USA: Midwestern theft ring busted

* USA: World’s hot spots for cargo cheft 

-- Cargo theft rates in Europe increased 24 percent on average last year from 2011, and were on the rise in Asia as well. Cargo theft rates in North, Central and South Americas remained consistent with prior years... The greatest risk of cargo theft today exists in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa, according to the 2013 Global Theft Assessment by FreightWatch International, a global logistics security services company. The firm said its report is based on data from industry and law enforcement agencies... For the past decade, more than 10,000 cargo theft incidents have been reported in Brazil. In 2012, nearly 6,800 incidents were reported in São Paulo alone... In Mexico, more than 6,000 cargo theft incidents were reported last year, the majority of them involving truck hijackings. In South Africa, more than 800 truck hijackings were reported... In Europe, data analyzed by FreightWatch International indicates pharmaceutical products are actively being targeted in some countries on a large scale for the first time. According to the report, Italy is becoming a pharmaceutical theft hot spot, with thefts more than doubling in 2012... The most frequently stolen commodity in Asia in 2012 was food and drink products, but other commodities are new targets in this region. Increasing demand for high-value consumables, such as electronics, has been identified as the reason for the increase in cargo theft in Asia, based on incident reporting... For the third consecutive year in the U.S.A., food and beverages were the product type most often stolen in 2012, accounting for 19 percent of all cargo theft, followed by metals and electronics... 
Des Plaines, ILL, USA - Claims Journal - May 1, 2013 


* Amazonas / Brazil - Cargo thefts rise in Brazil's Amazonas state as economy shrinks

-- The Amazonas region has been dubbed the “truck robbery center of Brazil” after the latest figures from the Federation of Logistics, Transport and Freight Forwarders for the Amazon Region (Fetramaz) revealed that the jungle region witnessed the highest theft rates in all Brazil... Officials say that in the first half of 2015 a third of all Brazil’s thefts from trucks occurred within the Amazonas region despite it having only 6 percent of Brazil’s population. Amazonas truck thefts were up 20 percent from the same period a year earlier, hitting a value of $80 million. The total first-half losses from 17,500 thefts from trucks in all of Brazil were $263.5 million... The vast majority of thefts are of electronics and various white goods that leave the Manaus Free Trade Zone destined for Brasilia, Belo Horizonte, Salvador and other markets to the south and east of Amazonas. Other targets are gas and gasoline carriers... Some 500,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units of containers are handled each year by the two box terminals in Manaus - Porto Chibatao and Superterminais - and some of these are unloaded from cabotage vessels at the ports of Belem and Vila do Conde and thousands more are barged to Belem for truck transport to Brasilia and beyond... Raimundo Augusto Araujo, who is the treasurer of Fetramaz and also the secretary of Association for Logistics and Transport Companies for the Amazonas region (Setcam), said that the lack of supervision of roads and the worsening Brazilian economy are mainly to blame. The only way to reduce truck theft is for more armed guards and convoys of trucks to be accompanied by a police escort front and back, he said... 
(Photo Credit: Adam Jones - Trucks hauling containers in Sao Francisco do Sul, Brazil) -- Sao Francisco do Sul, S.C., Brazil - JOC, by Rob Ward - Sep 03, 2015

* Quebec / Canada - Stolen box found sans $10 million in silver after Montreal port heist

-- A shipping container stolen from Montreal's port last week was found parked in a city suburb north of the island of Montreal, minus the $10 million in silver it was supposed to have been carrying... The Maersk Line container was located on St-Paul Street in the city of Repentigny, parked on a side street in a leafy residential suburb, according to Montreal police. It was on a trailer and the truck that pulled it was also missing... Police said the day-time heist began on Wednesday, when “one or more individuals” stole a semi-trailer from Montreal's west end, drove it to the Port of Montreal, loaded a shipping container carrying 16 tonnes of silver onto it and drove off. The stolen truck is a white 1997 Freightliner... 
(Photo: Police issued this Port of Montreal surveillance footage of the stolen truck)   --  Montreal, QUE, CAN - JOC - Sep 07, 2015


* Illinois / USA - Cargo theft is still considered a low risk, high profit crime

-- Cargo theft increased 11 percent this year, according to CargoNet, a division of Verisk Crime Analytics, and law enforcement is taking notice... These are patient criminals, said NICB supervisory special agent Steve Hall, a seasoned cargo theft investigator who originally started a joint cargo theft task force with the Louisville Police Department and the Kentucky State Police. They will set up surveillance and watch warehouses and truckers for several weeks... Once a driver of a cargo load stopped to rest or refuel his/her truck, the suspects would steal the entire truck and trailer loaded with merchandise... The suspects would usually abandon the stolen tractors after the trailer loaded with cargo was transferred to a tractor owned and/or operated by one of the members of the theft group. In an effort to conceal the identity of the trailer and evade law enforcement, the defendants would paint over any logos on the stolen trailer... According to the indictment, on 11 separate occasions the group stole cargo loads traveling within the Southern District of Indiana and used interstate highways to transport stolen merchandise to other states. Stolen cargo included computers and computer equipment, cellular telephones, electronics, appliances, perfume, cosmetics, clothing, baby formula and tires. The value of merchandise stolen in or unlawfully transported through Indiana alone is alleged to exceed $17.5 million, according to authorities... Hall said this cargo theft group operated much the same way most do – they target warehouses, follow trucks out to destinations and see if drivers deviate. They will steal anything, from candy to high value items, he said... In this case, the defendants could face up to 10 years in prison for each count of possession or transportation of stolen goods in interstate commerce and up to five years on the conspiracy charge. In addition, they could be sentenced for up to three years of supervised release following their prison term... 
 Des Plaines, ILL, USA - Claims Journal, by Denise Johnson - September 4, 2015

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