Reducing fraudulent declarations

An initiative designed to

reduce fraudulent cargo

declarations that obscure the

true identity of dangerous

goods transported around

the globe has seen Hapag

Lloyd winning the TT Club’s

‘Innovation in Safety’ award

this year.

According to TT Club, it is

estimated that this is the root

cause of a major shipboard fire

on average every 60 days. “All

shipping lines have attempted

to mitigate the problem but

in 2011 Hapag-Lloyd created

what has become the ‘Cargo

Patrol’ search engine.”

Cargo Patrol now

identifies in the order of 1

250 potential undeclared or

misdeclared bookings each

day. During 2016, the total

of 264 000 alerts resulted

in 4 200 positive ‘hits’ – and

many of these bookings were

subsequently cancelled by

the line.