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Russia Moves to Legalize Stolen Cars From Europe, Canada, and Ukraine
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From Canada? They're shipping them on boats?
It does make you wonder how Canada doesn't spot thousands of stolen cars being loaded onto boats, or if they do spot them, why they don't intervene.
It doesn't happen at the docks. They get loaded into shipping containers on trucks and on freight trains, so by the time it gets to the ship, it's well hidden. And they don't get on a ship bound for Russia either. The destination is more likely China or the Baltics.
Docks don't have time to x-ray everything so some always get through, especially the ones where well-practised crime has generated authentic looking documentation for what's supposed to be in the container.
The answer is we do spot them.... and they're shipped out of Montréal... Doing something though.... First someone would need to do something....
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/stolen-cars-montreal-9.7151820
https://thenorthernstar.ca/canada-auto-theft-crisis-port-of-montreal-export-pipeline-2026/
Canada’s ports export 6.4 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) per year so a couple thousand cars in them are basically a needle in the haystack.
This is how drug smuggling and human trafficking happens basically untouched too.
I don't think there are many other options. Unless they're boating them on ships, maybe.
Well they could plane them on jets, but that would be prohibitively expensive.
Maple.leaf floats actually