Xiamen Customs Anti-smuggling Bureau will focus on this cargo ship for two main reasons. One of them is that this cargo ship from Africa shut down its positioning system shortly after its departure in an attempt to hide its voyage. Positioning system is one of the important means to ensure the safety of maritime navigation, which can help ships avoid each other. In addition, another reason is that the size of this cargo ship is not suitable for ocean transportation. In general, most cargo ships used for ocean transportation are above 1 10,000 tons, while this cargo ship is only 1.600 tons. This tonnage cargo ship capsizes easily in bad weather.
Based on the above two anomalies, this cargo ship was locked by Xiamen Customs Anti-smuggling Bureau. After the cargo ship arrived in Xiamen, the police of Xiamen Customs Anti-smuggling Bureau inspected the ship. After boarding the ship, the police found that the ship was like an empty ship, and the only four containers on board were not loaded. After confirming the kitchen, cockpit, crew lounge and crew, the police found no problems. The police did not give up, searched several times, and then found a suspicious place in the cabin. It is suspicious that there are new spray marks on the paint in a certain area of the cabin.
After opening the cabin door, the police saw several black nylon duffel bags in the auxiliary fuel tank. After all these bags are taken out, it is confirmed that there are 14 bags, and all the things in these bags are rhinoceros horns. After counting, the number of rhinoceros horns seized is as high as 145, of which 1 10 is the whole horn. These rhinoceros horns, with a total weight of about 250kg, are worth about 1 100 million yuan. It can be seen from these data that this rhinoceros horn smuggling case is a very serious case.
Rhinoceros mainly live in Africa and Asia, among which the rhinoceros in Asia is almost extinct. As far as China is concerned, the last wild rhinoceros in China died in 2002 because of human hunting. The death of this rhinoceros means that the wild rhinoceros in China is about to be completely extinct. The reason why humans are so keen on killing rhinoceros is that rhinoceros horns can be used as medicine and decorations. Although rhinoceros has been extinct in China, China issued a ban on rhinoceros horn in 1993, so no trading activities related to rhinoceros horn are allowed.