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Success record

The question usually asked first is: "How successful are we?"

The answer is more complex than you might think. Quoting a simple percentage figure means little, as various factors are of significance. The following points play an important role:

  • The cargo type
What is the risk of theft for the missing items?
  • The sequence of events
How much time elapsed before we were involved?
  • The transport route
How cooperative have the transit companies been?

In the ten-year period between 1991 and 2001 we successfully located goods with a total value of around EUR 8,600.000, thus averting losses in the equivalent amount.

Clients in this time have included numerous national and international transit insurers, insurance brokers, freight forwarders and shippers.

Please note that we also offer cargo tracing services in the courier and express parcel sector, an area in which we have recorded numerous successes both nationally and internationally.

The following table provides examples of the losses we have been able to prevent with an indication of the means of transport, the cargo type and the country in which the cargo was located.

Loss in EUR

Means of transport Located in Cargo type
6.339,00 Express service Germany Vehicle parts
30.202,00 Airfreight Argentina Medical instruments
30.524,00 Road haulage Austria Filter materials
132.936,00 Road haulage Germany Medical instruments
30.640,00 Express service Guinea Telephones and accessories
167.964,00 Airfreight Saudi Arabia Turbine parts
17.469,00 Road haulage Germany Rubber aircraft tank
60.479,00 Express service France High-pressure pump parts
38.500,00 Road haulage Germany Telecommunications parts
175.586,00 Seafreight USA Generator parts
51.129,00 Seafreight PR Yemen X-ray machine
24.701,00 Airfreight Turkey Audiological equipment
511.292,00 Airfreight Ireland Hormones for human medicine
10.381,00 Road haulage Germany Polyester yarn
20.452,00 Airfreight USA Low-pressure structure for astronauts
18.407,00 Express service Germany Video endoscopy system
281.211,00 Seafreight Russia Tube lathe centre
21.119,00 Road haulage The Netherlands Sail fabric
143.162,00 Airfreight PR China Thermoforming machine
8.452,00 Road haulage Italy Chemicals
200.000,00 Airfreight Luxembourg Software codes

Cargo such as video recorders, mobile telephones, PC processors and computer memory chips present more of a problem. The more interesting a product for thieves or receivers of stolen goods, the greater the likelihood that the loss can be put down to theft.

Including the assignments entrusted to us in theft or fraud cases would distort any simple percentage success rate, as realistically the chance of success in such jobs is always lower.