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hedy ago

Please ask him to explain:

How live containers are moved/tracked port-to-port? manifested? how live contents are indicated, stored? How manifests and shipping logs are archived/accessed? How DHL communicates w/ shipper affiliates/middle-men? How customs processes work for live shipments? How ports operate/receive/ship? If/how transfer of custody occurs over water/off land. How storage at port is facilitated - 'vacant' warehouses? Was DHL receiving business contracts with NGOs or philanthropic orgs here and abroad?

Share this link for anecdotal account of port processes w/ human trafficking by Dr. Sue Lorrigo - child victim (not endorsing the hosting site) - ask if any of this sounds plausible/offers clues (things have probably changed over time but still might have leads). SNIPS only due to char limits: http://www.gailallen.com/theo/Secrets-of-the-CIA-Global-Sex-Slave-Industry-by-Dr-Sue-Arrigo.html

SHIPPING SEX SLAVES Shipping of sex slaves...is a bottleneck in the sex slave trade. We can try to make it more of a bottleneck by exposing it. It is obvious that human cargo is never listed on the ship’s cargo list. Most people assume that all ships coming into a harbor are logged in & registered. That is simply not true. There is a whole system set up for smugglers and regardless of what they are smuggling it is the same -- drugs, sex slaves, art treasures, landmines, chemical weapons, etc.

When a ship first comes in and makes contact with the harbor authorities by radio, it has to give the right signal or it will be bordered by the coast guard as an "illegal" vessel. When it radios, it indicates to the harbor authorities whether it wants to be inspected or not and how perishable its "fruit" is. Any shipper in the "legal" loop knows the informal code that indicates whether the ship is clean and can be inspected to make the harbour authorities and the shipping co. look good, or is dirty and should not be inspected for those same reason.

Over 75% of sex slaves end up in the hands of the independent brothel owners so it is definitely a worthwhile part of the trade to target in terms of saving lives. However, the bosses that skim off the top 10% of the children make more like 90% of the profits.

If one wants goods shipped off the record it goes "by the way." That is code slang for "off the record." One throws it into the shipping conversation. Suppose I at the CIA want to ship a load of goods to Iraq for “reconstruction” purposes. I call up almost any shipper in the world and say for instance, 'I want to send 17 “boxes” of construction goods, and “by the way” two bodies to look after them. Make sure they arrive safely, you know.' The shipper then knows that there will be not two people, but two box containers, ea. containing many girls and boys. But the usual instruction to the shipper is more like “be sure they arrive in not too bad condition” because they want a high spoilage rate, but for some of them to survive.

Another way I have heard this phrased is, “deliver it ripe but not spoiled” as if one was talking about bananas. The shippers know what the bosses want — they are paid big bribes to know. The conversation is like an insider’s language. You have to know it and not slip up on it to place the order to move them. But it is all done plain text, not in encrypted format. Much of it is done on cell phones and is not secure at all, anyone could listen in. As soon as I send this to you it may be changed. The point is that an investigator could listen to shipping conversations for awhile and quickly figure out the system.

(more on link)

FriesischShipping ago

Excellent, exactly what I wanted, thank you!