Cargo Theft * USA - Rose to Record High in 2010

A reported 75 cargo thefts took place per month across transport industry

Austin,TXS,USA -Today's Trucking (CAN) –21 Jan 2011:  --  New Jersey's cargo thefts flew off the charts in 2010 with a staggering 142 percent increase of recorded incidents over 2009... While California, Florida and Texas all saw slight decreases in the number of cargo theft incidents, the Garden State apparently had 121 cargo thefts compared to just 50 the year before, according to FreightWatch International... Not surprisingly, TVs were stolen in the U.S. more than any other single product in 2010, which was an annual record for stolen cargo... Cargo theft rose by 4.1 percent last year, to 899 cargo theft incidents (an average of 75 per month) the most ever recorded,...  After TVs, computer-laptops and cell phones were the most stolen cargo products... Pharmaceuticals once again measured as the highest per-incident value lost, averaging $3.78 million, with tobacco second and electronics third... Freightwatch identified multiple-trailer thefts as an important trend in 2010...   Of all the reported incidents, 81 percent were full truckload or container thefts. Violence, such as hijackings, was involved in 1.3 percent of the incidents...