Bax Global in the Ocean 11 re-making

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Ocean's Twelve finds Danny Ocean and company at a different place in their lives and careers. However, it quickly becomes apparent that even though everyone on the crew is trying to lead a legit life, the members are at their happiest when they plan and pull off a heist. They simply need the adrenaline rush that was missing from their lives during the past three years.

Ocean 11 was re-make into a new triller - Cargo 11. They made it look too easy. Dressed in Rela uniform but armed with drugs, 20 men yesterday pulled off the biggest robbery Malaysia has ever known.

In an hour, they looted almost RM50 million of computer parts from under the noses of security at Bax Global Logistics, Batu Maung Free Commercial Zone, Penang.

The robbers gave the workers chloroform-mineral water to drink.

Then they hauled away 585 cartridges of microchips and computer parts in two lorries. The zone is managed by Idris Jalil's MAS.

The robbers also knew exactly when to strike. The microchips and computer components were sent from a factory in Penang to the warehouse in three consignments yesterday. They were to be flown out to several countries in the Asia Pacific region later yesterday. The robbers struck at 2.30am, less than two hours after the last consignment arrived at the warehouse.

The robbers arrived in two 40-foot container lorries. The drivers and attendants in both vehicles were clad in Rela uniform, complete with yellow berets. They drove through the MAS Free Zone lane at the checkpoint without being stopped for security checks and made their way to the warehouse.

The four robbers got out and immediately rounded up all 17 workers at the warehouse. They told the workers they were there to conduct urine checks for drug abuse and to weed out illegals. The four opened the two containers and 16 masked men, some brandishing parangs, came out to confront the victims.

The workers were forced to drink a chloroform-laced drink. While the workers were groaning and throwing up, the robbers went about their business.

The robbers knew exactly what. They came for and went for the microchips and computer components. There were other valuables in the warehouse but these were ignored.

After loading the two containers, the robbers destroyed several close-circuit television cameras and took away the tapes. They then stopped at the checkpoint to confront the Customs officers and a lorry driver submitting his declaration forms for checks. After assaulting the three and snatching their mobile phones, the robbers went into the guardhouse and destroyed the telephones, giving them ample time to escape before the alarm could be raised.

Forwarders alerted authorities of SMS warning.

A week before Hari Raya, airport authorities were alerted about an SMS claiming that a major heist would either occur at the KLIA or the Penang International Airport. Airfreight Forwarders Association of Malaysia chairman Walter Culas said that when the SMS, by an anonymous sender, was forwarded to him last month, he notified the authorities. “I don't understand how this heist could have happened when the airport authorities had been alerted,” he said yesterday.


Need for cargo tracking system

The heist is a wake-up call for all parties on the need for the Free Commercial Zone (FCZ) electronic declaration system which could track and trace the movement of cargo and other goods, said an aviation source.
“Apart from increasing security personnel, upgrading perimeter fencing and enhancing their CCTVs, the authorities need to implement this system,” he said.

MAS claimed they had wanted to implemented the system but it was “disrupted” when Penang Freight Forwarders Association (PFFA) won an injunction against MAS middle of this year.

MAS was ordered to stop enforcing four circulars issued this year which included, among others, a processing fee of RM5 for each document and required submissions of documents to be done through the electronic system. MAS was also stopped from interfering with the day-to-day operations in the FCZ and ordered to allow PFFA to operate in the FCZ without conditions.

What a crap. Multi-million dollars warehouse do not have a tracking system?

As usual, it will take a damaged situation to force the authorities to put on their thinking hat.

Risk management is absent. Project management is obliged. Monitoring and control is about sub-system management and do not entails the whole supply-chain management. Management are crowded with graduates and many had MBAs and doctorate. They are there to manage what is, and what are that exist. They aren't wholesale managers, or, is it the fact that the board of directors and those in power do not care about the management system.

All that can be excused as the Prime Minister is more concerned about insider's job; not system dysfunction or system inefficiencies.