Static Cargo: A Potential Threat
In the face of the growing threat of cargo theft, a new eBook provides valuable insights for shippers, motor carriers, brokers, and yard operators seeking to secure their goods. The $700 billion crisis, affecting global supply chains, has prompted the need for urgent tactics, trends, and strategies for secure Industrial Outdoor Storage (IOS).
The eBook identifies potential targets for cargo theft and offers guidance on assessing a facility's vulnerability. It reveals that often-labeled "secure" locations lack the infrastructure to deter criminals, with thieves targeting locations with known security gaps, often in industrial outdoor storage yards and parking facilities.
The eBook discusses the inadequacy of traditional security measures and explains why they are falling short. It highlights the gold standard for IOS cargo security and its key features, including physical barriers, perimeter alarm systems, controlled access points, surveillance cameras, remote video monitoring and AI, mobile surveillance units, 24/7 monitoring, a layered deterrence strategy, lock-up procedures, and advanced technology integration.
Practical steps outlined in the eBook to reduce risk and protect cargo in IOS include:
- Installing robust security fencing to block direct access to storage areas, creating a physical obstacle for thieves.
- Setting up alarm systems with motion sensors and smart cameras around the yard perimeter, detecting intrusions in real time and alerting via phone or email.
- Conducting security inspections at unpredictable intervals and times to avoid establishing patterns thieves might exploit.
- Limiting entry to the storage yard through secured gates or barriers using keypad systems, badge access, or similar controls. Maintaining entry logs to monitor who enters and leaves.
- Deploying outdoor security cameras at gates, doors, and on storage containers, using wireless cameras on equipment to monitor blind spots, and thermal imaging cameras to detect intruders even in darkness.
- Implementing AI-powered CCTV with remote video monitoring to alert security personnel instantly if a perimeter is breached or fencing cut.
- Utilizing mobile security units equipped with night vision and motion detection, alongside around-the-clock remote monitoring centers that can verify and respond to alerts rapidly, coordinating law enforcement if needed.
- Combining visible security signage, adequate lighting, physical security presence, and camera surveillance to create multiple deterrents that discourage attempts at theft.
- Ensuring crews follow strict lock-up checklists at day’s end, using heavy-duty locks paired with sensors and monitoring to protect unattended deliveries or materials.
- Using GPS real-time tracking with geofencing to monitor cargo location continuously and receive alerts for deviations or entry into high-risk zones. Employing tamper detection sensors to identify forced entry attempts immediately.
The eBook also discusses what it takes to protect high-value goods, providing insights into how theft tactics are changing. It encourages downloading for further learning on reducing cargo theft risk and improving security.
Sources: - Physical barriers, alarms, inspections, controlled access: [1] - Surveillance cameras, includes thermal imaging and remote monitoring: [2] - Mobile surveillance units, 24/7 monitoring, layered deterrence: [3] - GPS real-time tracking, tamper detection: [4]
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The eBook suggest installing robust security fencing and setting up alarm systems with motion sensors to reduce the risk of cargo theft in industrial outdoor storage (IOS). It also encourages the use of advanced technologies like AI-powered CCTV, mobile surveillance units, and GPS real-time tracking with geofencing for enhanced security measures in global supply chain finance. The eBook offers business strategies to improve IOS cargo security, including creating multiple deterrents and implementing strict lock-up checklists.
