Cargo Theft Up 27% in 2024 With Continued Rise Expected: NICB

According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), law enforcement agencies have increased the risk of defeating law enforcement as well as law enforcement agencies, and global supply chain has increased.

In the past 18 months, NICB has helped investigate more than 240 cargo crimes, which has been recovered 70, worth about $ 40 million.

Since 2022, the organization has opened an average of 150 commercial cargo crime cases every year.

Agents, along with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies as well as NICB member insurance companies, to help investigate organized crimes involved in cargo theft.

“Combined with common use business technologies such as Voice Over -Internet Protocol (VOIP) and GPS weakness, business email compromises, identification theft, and artificial identities, sophisticated criminals are enabled to bring high -value consumer goods such as electronics, medicine, and black market to black market.” “Bad actors take advantage of these risks, as well as with the economic uncertainty created by the ongoing tariff negotiations for their own profits.”

In 2023, the stolen commercial goods and estimated losses cost more than $ 1 billion.

According to Kargonate, last year, cargo crime increases, increasing 27 % over 2023.

By the end of 2025, the loss of annual cargo theft will increase by 22 % by the end of 2025.

The average price of an individual’s theft is more than $ 202,000.

The culprits exploit cargo delivery by theft, fraud, which presents fictitious careers and cyber -powered logistics manipulation.

“When manufacturers are forced to calculate the stolen trade, the costs are also transferred to consumers,” Gull said. “An accurate picture of cargo crime is a challenge. We are demanding the transportation industry, insurance carriers and law enforcement agencies to share data around the crimes to help spot samples that help to find criminals and prevent this crime.”

Non -profit said that the only way to prevent cargo theft is a detection.

NICB recommends the following precautions for any company engaged in supply chain:

• Screen each employee. Check the background on each employee, which has access to shipping information.
• Train employees on symbols of cargo theft. Provide security training to all employees and educate truck drivers in high jack awareness and prevention, as well as respond and report theft.
• Check transport partners before hiring. They should distribute your safety philosophy, such as background examination and employees’ training. Use freight brokers and transporters that do not allow double broker. Make sure you can only make a recruitment decisions, as a ship, broker, transporter, or displacement. Make sure the change order can only be created by the cargo owner. Be careful and check the emails to ensure that they are legitimate and not change. Check the phone numbers used by people inside the supply chain and make sure if the Internet protocol is determined to voice, take additional testing methods.
• Implement these transit security measures. Cargo theft may be pre -planned or opportunistic and may include internal informants who follow the goods, eventually leading the culprits to the luggage. Thieves often wait for the drivers to wait out of unknown shipping facilities. The best process is to not stop at the first 200 miles, to park in safe places, and avoid “hot spots”.
• Keep a vigilant. Trucks and cargo are the weakest time in time. In the duties of your security guards, add 360 degrees to the counter surveillance-prominent and your property and surroundings.
• Take advantage of technology. Use security layers: Make sure the frames, entrances, building doors, and windows are well illuminated. Install alarm surveillance systems, vehicle and cargo tracking, embellishzers, and sophisticated security seals.
• Do audits. Regularly scan for the Gulf of Shipment Protection, and be specific to how the supply can enable technology theft in chain.

NICB produces proprietary risk assessment based on its data, as well as law enforcement agencies, industry intelligence, cargoonate, FBI and overoleum data.

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