ORGANISED crime plays a substantial role in freight crime, driven by profit motives akin to legitimate commercial enterprises, according to tt Club transport insurers.
The illicit activities mirror the processes of legal supply chains, encompassing storage, transportation, distribution, and marketing of stolen goods.
Criminals engaged in freight crime often acquire advanced logistics skills, allowing them to strategically target shipments at various points, ranging from truck hijackings to pilfering items from inadequately secured warehouses.
This translates into considerable financial losses and disrupts the smooth flow of goods, resulting in delayed deliveries and dissatisfied customers.
'At TT we are striving to highlight the responsibility that landlords in particular have to properly vet tenants of storage facilities and how they can prevent their properties being used to warehouse stolen goods,' said TT Club logistics risk manager Josh Finch.
'In a recent operation, police in the UK discovered a warehouse, at a location in Bradford that held hundreds of pallets of stolen goods. With the assistance of the National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service (NaVCIS) the goods found were linked to known cargo theft incidents which spanned the previous six years and amounted to several million pounds in value.'
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The illicit activities mirror the processes of legal supply chains, encompassing storage, transportation, distribution, and marketing of stolen goods.
Criminals engaged in freight crime often acquire advanced logistics skills, allowing them to strategically target shipments at various points, ranging from truck hijackings to pilfering items from inadequately secured warehouses.
This translates into considerable financial losses and disrupts the smooth flow of goods, resulting in delayed deliveries and dissatisfied customers.
'At TT we are striving to highlight the responsibility that landlords in particular have to properly vet tenants of storage facilities and how they can prevent their properties being used to warehouse stolen goods,' said TT Club logistics risk manager Josh Finch.
'In a recent operation, police in the UK discovered a warehouse, at a location in Bradford that held hundreds of pallets of stolen goods. With the assistance of the National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service (NaVCIS) the goods found were linked to known cargo theft incidents which spanned the previous six years and amounted to several million pounds in value.'
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