Cargo thieves are becoming more strategic about how they strike.  A thriving black market keeps cargo thieves in business to the detriment of the global economy. Cargo crime is not new and has been around for centuries as history documented robbers attacking merchants on trading roads to pirates seizing ships at sea and to bandits on horseback robbing stage coaches. Cargo crime has been evolving along with technology advancement and cargo transportation methods where trucks have been replaced with horse-drawn carriages.  The cargo criminal syndicates have organized into international crime and today cargo crime is an international problem affecting consumers and businesses alike.  Currently due to global economy, raw materials for manufacturing and sourcing often occur in different part of the world.  The finished product may be warehoused and consumed in another and cargo can be stolen at any point within the supply chain.  Cargo criminals are becoming very professional and work in highly organized groups, targeting specific items and employing people who are specialist to bring a different set of criminal skills to the group.  Take for example professional cargo criminals, whose bases of operations are truck yards, hubs for commercial freight cargoes, airports and sea ports.  While other criminals target cash and valuable items, these professionals make of with other goods.  Cargo criminal used sophisticated operations with well organized hierarchies of leadership.  They employ specialists who can carry out different tasks and responsibilities including hijackers and brokers or fences that help dispose the stolen goods.  Normally the fences work very closely with drivers in moving the stolen cargoes into the black market to be dispersed.  Sometimes foreign labourers are used to move the cargoes and work with drivers in transporting the stolen cargoes from the docks or trucks.  In fencing, cargoes are brought from another party who is in illegal possession of those cargoes.  The cargoes stolen will be disposed through fences for local market and sometimes the cargoes are taken out of the country in a very short time to avoid being detected by the Police.  These professional syndicated  gangs usually employ a specialist who is an expert at foiling the anti-theft locks and GPS system on truck and trailers in order the hijack the truck.  Cargo criminals usually heist whole truck load of cargo of which the average freight on a trailer can be valued up to a few million dollars depending on the type of cargoes.  There are many cases especially cargoes of electronics products being hijacked from Malaysia and found in the black market overseas the next day.  This is how efficient and sophisticated network that the professional ca