Shippers & cargo owners

Case:
Secure Your Cargo with BoxHound

Shippers and businesses rely on freight forwarders and carriers to ensure their cargo reaches its destination safely. However, theft, tampering, and contamination can pose serious risks—compromising product quality, consumer safety, and your company’s reputation.

Unauthorized access can occur at any point in transit—whether on trucks, in parking areas, at ports, aboard ocean carriers, or in storage before final delivery. Traditional container tracking only provides location data, detecting route deviations or electronic jamming. However, it fails to identify when and where a container is physically opened or compromised.

Why BoxHound?

BoxHound goes beyond standard tracking by providing real-time monitoring (see product details). It instantly detects and reports unauthorized container openings, alerting you to potential theft, tampering, or contamination.

Key Benefits:
✅ Enhanced Security – Know when and where unauthorized access occurs.
✅ Supply Chain Confidence – Ensure cargo integrity from origin to destination.
✅ Actionable Insights – Data-driven alerts enable rapid response and contingency activation.
✅ Insurance Leverage – Strengthen negotiations with insurers by demonstrating active risk mitigation.
✅ Crime Prevention – Transparency in using BoxHound may deter criminals from misusing your containers for illicit activities.

If unauthorized access occurs, BoxHound immediately logs and notifies you, providing crucial evidence for investigations and helping to pinpoint security gaps. Proactively addressing such risks ensures product quality, prevents shortages, and strengthens trust in your supply chain.

With BoxHound, you don’t just track your cargo—you protect it.

- Government Military cargo US DOD

- LVMH

- Sony / Samsung / Philips

- Pharma

The problem: Shippers often depend on carrier-provided tracking updates, which may be inconsistent and lack real-time accuracy. High-value cargo such as pharmaceutical goods, electronics, and luxury brands face a constant risk of theft or counterfeit, while more ordinary types of cargo are used by criminal networks to conceal illicit items such as drugs or weapons.

No cargo owner wishes to have the cargo tampered with, replaced, or stolen, or to having unauthorized parties using their shipment (container) to smuggle drugs, weapons, or other illicit cargo. However, once a container leave the point of departure, visibility on cargo status is limited, making it impossible to detect security breaches until arrival. Unauthorized access may not even be detected at all, with motivation for the breach remaining blurred. This uncertainty leads to higher insurance costs, inventory mismanagement, and supply chain disruptions. It may result in delivery delay, supply shortage and ultimately affecting end-customer satisfaction as well as shippers reputation and profitability.

How Boxhound can help: Partnering with Boxhound provides shippers with real-time tracking and tamper alerts. Shippers gain end-to-end visibility, and although it may not directly reduce delays or prevent cargo loss, BoxHound will provide a shipper with the comfort of knowing no one has had unauthorized access to the cargo.

Today, it may be impossible for a shipper to document if, where, and when a cargo container has been unlawfully accessed and leave the shipper with the burden of proving innocence to any illicit content discovered.

In case of unauthorized access, the shipper will get instant notification on time and place. Unauthorized access may indicate the cargo has been tampered with and result in loss of cargo, additional inspections, or delivery delays. The notification will serve as a warning to exercise the contingency arrangements and to consider alternative shipping routes.

The ability to assess and document transport risk may dynamically lowers insurance premiums while enhancing customer trust, improving supply chain reliability, and reducing financial losses from disruptions.