Shipping container security
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Mark Topic as New
- Mark Topic as Read
- Float this Topic for Current User
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Printer Friendly Page
- Plusnet Community
- :
- Forum
- :
- Other forums
- :
- General Chat
- :
- Shipping container security
Shipping container security
Shipping container security
17-08-2014 1:35 PM
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Highlight
- Report to Moderator
This is a very tragic situation for these people but there is also the major concern regarding security, imagine what could be packed in a container of that size and the damage plus loss of life that could occur.
Please do not turn this post into a rant about immigrants. This post is about shipping container security only.
Thanks.

Re: Shipping container security
Re: Shipping container security
17-08-2014 1:40 PM
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Highlight
- Report to Moderator
I imagine very few containers are actually checked (some cargo ships can hold thousands of containers), unless border control/immigration have a tip-off or some kind of intelligence.
Re: Shipping container security
Re: Shipping container security
17-08-2014 1:42 PM
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Highlight
- Report to Moderator
Re: Shipping container security
Re: Shipping container security
17-08-2014 1:59 PM
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Highlight
- Report to Moderator
Containers are weatherproof/waterproof so they cannot be unlock using the existing locking mechanism from the inside as this will breach the seals. The only way is to fit an escape hatch which is only locked/unlocked from the inside.
Re: Shipping container security
Re: Shipping container security
17-08-2014 2:04 PM
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Highlight
- Report to Moderator
Obviously this container has probably had false seals or it has been 'nodded' through by those on the take!
York.
Re: Shipping container security
Re: Shipping container security
17-08-2014 2:07 PM
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Highlight
- Report to Moderator
I know someone could have replaced the seal but security at most container ports is good with CCTV all over the place.
Re: Shipping container security
Re: Shipping container security
17-08-2014 2:10 PM
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Highlight
- Report to Moderator
I guess the 2 bombs dropped on Japan would have fitted inside that container...... Need I say any more !
Quote from: NedLudd My knowledge of these matters is probably way out of date now but it used to be that containers would have their doors 'sealed' by an appropriate body before despatch to the port. As long as those seals were intact then no further action would be taken!
Obviously this container has probably had false seals or it has been 'nodded' through by those on the take!
Re: Shipping container security
Re: Shipping container security
17-08-2014 2:44 PM
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Highlight
- Report to Moderator
Quote from: gleneagles Would the person putting on the seals not be responsible for checking what was inside first .?
I know someone could have replaced the seal but security at most container ports is good with CCTV all over the place.
As I said 'an appropriate body'. When 'riding shotgun' with a friend from Spain to the UK, before Spain was in the EU, the load was inspected and sealed at a transit depot just before the French border. T.I.R. regs were in place and the French did not touch the load or break the seals. UK customs broke the seals upon entry to the UK.
I image a similar system still exists today for goods entering the EU at Italy say, with goods destined for the UK!
York.
Re: Shipping container security
Re: Shipping container security
17-08-2014 2:53 PM
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Highlight
- Report to Moderator
It has always puzzled me that cars are often stolen to order in this country and then shipped abroad in containers, how can that be the case if security is supposed to be that good ?
Re: Shipping container security
Re: Shipping container security
17-08-2014 3:34 PM
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Highlight
- Report to Moderator
its not normal for customs to check inside containers other than passing them by some scanners given the sheer number of them moving through a port at any given time (thousands every day) although they do randomly select some for inspection, all that is required to prevent this sort of thing in the future is heat scanners to be used as well as nuclear/biological/chemical/explosive scanners but its expensive and still wont necessarily detect everything ....
Re: Shipping container security
Re: Shipping container security
17-08-2014 4:05 PM
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Highlight
- Report to Moderator
The meter thought of being scanned with gamma rays would be enough to put me off from hiding in a container.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_scanning
Re: Shipping container security
Re: Shipping container security
17-08-2014 4:17 PM
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Highlight
- Report to Moderator
What will happen to the illegal entrants now? Will they be returned to Belgium, sent back to India or allowed to stay in the UK?
Re: Shipping container security
Re: Shipping container security
17-08-2014 4:24 PM
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Highlight
- Report to Moderator
Re: Shipping container security
Re: Shipping container security
17-08-2014 4:26 PM
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Highlight
- Report to Moderator
Re: Shipping container security
Re: Shipping container security
17-08-2014 4:28 PM
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Highlight
- Report to Moderator
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Mark Topic as New
- Mark Topic as Read
- Float this Topic for Current User
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Printer Friendly Page