Cargo Theft: A Persisting Menace

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  • With lingering inflation and other economic pressures, swindlers are continuing to swipe items from shipping containers and to steal entire containers to pad their income and counter lingering scarcity. 
  • Vehicles and their accessories, building materials, and commercial and industrial items were also frequent theft targets in 2022.
  • Cargo transported by air is well protected by airport security personnel and policies.
Stolen Cargo – Two types of Activity
  • Pilfera...

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FG Not Doing Enough To Stop Oil Theft – Babalola

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$20 billion crude lost

Rear Admiral Henry Babalola (ret. ), the former Chief of Policy and Planning for the Nigerian Navy, charged that the government was not doing enough to combat oil theft in the nation. On March 22, he told the media in the nation’s capital during a Defense Correspondents Association of Nigeria seminar with the theme “Achieving presidential mandate in curbing oil theft and securing the nation’s wealth” that the $20 billion allegedly lost to crude...

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Loaded and Rolling: Cargo thefts surge 15% in 2022; LMI January data

Cargo thefts surge 15% in 2022
(Graphic: CargoNet)

FreightWaves’ Noi Mahoney reports that, according to CargoNet data, a surge in cargo thefts near the end of 2022 led to an estimated $223 million in goods being stolen across Canada and the U.S. 

Regarding who’s committing most of the cargo thefts, organized crime takes the top spot. Scott Cornell, transportation lead and crime and theft specialist at Travelers, said nine out of 10 cargo thefts are committed by an organized crime group. The top...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/loaded-and-rolling-cargo-thefts-surge-15-in-2022-lmi-january-data

ONE sues Union Pacific over Los Angeles cargo thefts

A Union Pacific locomotive passes by an industrial plant.

Japanese container shipping company Ocean Network Express is suing Union Pacific over cargo theft that occurred on UP’s intermodal trains in Southern California earlier this year.

According to ONE’s legal filing in the U.S. District Court for Nebraska, UP (NYSE: UNP) was contracted to deliver solar panels from China to Salt Lake City via the Port of Los Angeles, but when the panels arrived at Salt Lake City, the container’s door was missing and the panels had been stolen.

ONE estimates the claim...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/one-sues-union-pacific-over-los-angeles-cargo-thefts

TAPA: EMEA Cargo Thefts on the Rise!

  • Cargo crimes in EMEA have seen record year-on-year growth in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 – and 2019 has already set a new record for incidents reported to TAPA’s IIS.
  • The 4,187 crimes published in the TAPA EMEA IIS Reports for Q1 and Q2 2019 surpasses the 2018 total by 5.1%.
  • Behind these alarming numbers, however, sits some very positive news; the growing trust and intelligence sharing between national law enforcement agencies.

The year 2019 was another record-breaking year for cargo crimes in...

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