Everyone brings their merchandise theft figures. The cameras and transport and safety organizations estimate that there were 15,937 thefts to cargo transport in 2024, while the Ministry of Citizen Safety and Protection (SSPC) estimates that there were 9,299.
“These differences reflect a significant sub -registration of crimes, because they were not denounced or because the official figures do not include all the incidents,” said Ricardo Bustamante Medina, president of the Mexican Association of Private Security and Satellite Industry Association (AMESIS).
“The official figures always differ from those that we obtain in the private initiative,” he said.
According to the SSPC, the allegations of theft of carriers in 2024 decreased 12 percent compared to 2023.
However, cameras and transport and security organizations indicate that last year there was an increase of 9.18 percent.
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The president of the AMESIS said that theft to the cargo autotransport sector represent losses for several million pesos, depending on the type of load.
“The crime is a challenge for the entire supply chain and its logistics where we participate transport companies, insurers and security suppliers, in this last item, we constantly invest in technological innovations,” he said.
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The Figures of the AMESIS are data collected among the members of the organization composed of 32 firms specializing in telemetry and satellite tracking, said the entrepreneur.
The State of Mexico headed the robberies last year with 31 percent, followed by Puebla with 23 percent, Guanajuato with 13 percent, Jalisco 9 percent, San Luis Potosí with 6 percent, Veracruz with 6 percent, Querétaro With 4 percent, Hidalgo with 4 percent and the rest of the country with 4 percent.
The AMESIS attended just over 600 cases of thefts with 95.5 percent in recovery of units in road and cities sections, at an average time of 45 minutes at the foreign level and 28 minutes in the national field, respectively.
The group recorded a decrease in the 12.5 percent accident, thanks to the monitoring and the implementation of Anti Jammers.
He reported that the recovery rate of stolen goods in the first half of 2024 was 57 percent, a slight decrease against 60 percent registered between 2021 and 2022.
The organization had a 90 percent recovery in 2023 and 95.5 percent in 2024.
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The theft of merchandise in transit is of high negative impact on the economy of Mexico, a criminal trend that does not decrease and financial losses directly affect men-camion, transport and insurance companies, so they influence the increase in the cost of transfer and The price for the final consumer.
On average, Mexico registered 60 load robberies per day, while theft by Jamming was 69 percent because authorities have not taken measures to apply the Anti Jammer law.
