United States, it is estimated there are $30 billion worth of cargoes are stolen annually and usually cargo criminals are sophisticated and well organized.  Palmer (2010) revealed that the criminals are often recruited from the United States but trained by Cuban crime syndicates and then deployed to Florida to execute their operations.  The stolen cargoes from the United States is brought to ports and exported in ocean containers to countries such as Paraguay, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, the Dominican Republic, and Costa Rica.  From there, they are sold through black market distribution channels.  Fleet Owner, Sam Rizzitelli revealed that there are ranges of new cargo crime tactics are being deployed to help criminal to have better control and thus mitigate the risks of the crimes they are trying to commit (Sean Kilcarr, 2013).  Rizzitelli explained that these new tactics fall into three categories: identity theft, fictitious pickups and misdirected loads/fraudulent carriers.  The criminals are very creative and change their methods to develop better ways to get away with cargoes rather than commit straight theft where loads are physically stolen from parking lots or terminals and risking getting spotted and potentially be involved in a high speed chase.  The cargo criminals are trying to be more strategic about committing the crime so they can better pinpoint and steal specific types of cargo.  These strategic kinds of crimes are due to the combination of many factors where more sophisticated technology being used with greater access to information within the logistics industry and the involvement of more intermediaries throughout the supply chain.  This allows cargo criminals to be in better control of the timing and location of a theft.  In many cases, getting the desired cargoes and handed them over to the criminals is easier than having to hunt it down and steal them.

Criminals are becoming increasingly creative in using the internet to pull off cargo crime throughout the supply chain (Bill, 2010).  Cargo criminals are using the internet to track shipments, book transportation with legitimate air carrier and conversely set up bogus transportation operations that will arrange cargo pick-ups for legitimate shippers and forwarders.  These criminal called a legitimate harbour trucking company whose drivers have the credentials to pick up the container at the marine terminal and deliver it to a non-descript warehouse location.  Another ploy is for