Source: Planeta Seguro - SP - 13/08/2009

From the approach of the public authorities to the use of armored vehicles, the solutions found by companies to increase cargo theft go in all directions. A cell phone company, for example, has been transporting the handsets, produced in a factory 200 kilometers from São Paulo, in armored cars, according to its insurer.

Drug manufacturers, on the other hand, one of the sectors most targeted by thieves, managed to pass a federal law that will place a two-dimensional bar code on packaging.

"The intention is to inhibit the transfer of stolen goods", says Marcelo Liebhardt, manager of economic affairs at Interfarma. “It will be easier to determine where the theft took place, the paths of the stolen products and to avoid selling them.

Recently, the transport federation and Fiesp also met with the Secretariat of Public Security to seek alternatives to the problem. In addition to prioritizing the fight against reception, the secretariat decided to put together the police stations for cargo theft and fraud in insurance companies.

“Electronic invoices and product traceability, with bar codes, will help to reduce theft,” says Paulo Roberto de Souza, security adviser to the federation and the national transport association.

Source: Folha de S. Paulo, 12/08/09