![]() ![]() ![]() Not only does idle freight create more opportunities for thieves, it also complicates trying to protect freight in transit, according to Scott Cornell, transportation lead, crime and theft specialist at Travelers.Īccording to Keith Lewis, CargoNet’s vice president of operations, cargo theft skyrocketed during 2020 amid the pandemic. Once again, they’re sitting still and they get hit even out there.” “A lot of times they might be in the middle of the desert, but they have to pull over and let this other train going in the other direction pass. ![]() ![]() “Based on railroad protocol, certain trains have to yield to the other trains,” Coughlin said. will sit idle on single-track railways in certain places. With train shipments, freight moving from the West Coast or East Coast to places across the U.S. “It was most likely to do with sitting for a long time.” “Somewhere between the ship and the train, most likely on the train once it got there, the theft occurred,” Coughlin said. “Especially right now at places like the Port of Los Angeles, the trains come to the port and they take containers off of the ship and put them on the train, then those containers are sitting for days on end and not moving,” Coughlin said.Ĭoughlin recently worked a case for an electronics company that had about a $1 million theft from logistics facilities around the Port of LA. JJ Coughlin, owner of Corporate Security Solutions of Texas, said there’s an old saying: “Freight at rest is freight at risk.” Union Pacific recently reported a rash of cargo container break-ins as shipments were being transported out of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach through downtown LA. Overhaul is a real-time visibility and risk management platform based in Austin, Texas.Ĭargo that finally makes its way out of backlogged ports is being aggressively targeted by criminals eyeing containers filled with everything from home appliances and electronic goods to apparel and more. “The backlog across all logistics infrastructure is causing containers and shipments to sit idle, not just in the ports but outside the ports, increasing opportunities for them to be targeted by criminals,” Ron Greene, vice president of business development at Overhaul, told FreightWaves. ports and overstressed supply chains are creating conditions ripe for cargo theft, according to experts. ![]()
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