Thread: Sad Commentary on Life and Balance.

Originally Posted by Hunteast

It's been said before - shipping containers and shipping containers. Drugs and firearms and what else you wish to throw in. Bugger all are being searched at point of entry. Anyone can place an order to have a shipping container brought into the country and delivered to your preferred address by truck. Ships carry thousands of containers on each delivery to port. Customs cannot and do not search/x-ray every container - its impossible. Mr Cargill knows this but won't discuss how big this issue really is. His focus is elsewhere.

If you have a look at the reports out of the Tauranga port customs area, I think they lose 2 or 3 containers a year from what's in the media that just get 'removed' without the official process being followed. I recall 2 of these cases coming up in the media recently, the missing containers were not located. It's a dodgy 'volume' business but the notion that the borders are more porous than the official line would like us to believe is plausible.