Disposable seal performs tricks
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INCE the Berec Group Ltd inoduced the Blair Cable Loc sposable seal at less than El 3r container, TLT trailer load sses of batteries and assoated products such as lamps id torches have dropped to ry low levels.
Berec's Ripple Road, Barking, arehouse sends up to 60 coniners every week for Europe, frica and the Americas. Each antainer can contain up to 19 ins of batteries valued at about ?0,000.
As soon as loading is cornlete, the container is secured ith the Cable Loc; it is a oneIece, disposable seal, manufacwed by J. N. Blair Ltd of Market arborough, consisting of a ngth of high-strength cable -id a one-way locking mechanm.
The free end of the cable is assed through the hasp locking ole in the container handle and itroduced into the lock body, len pulled along the cable until fits snugly against the hasp. It annot then be removed until le cable is cut with a special )ol when the container reaches its destination. After the numbered seal is broken, it cannot be used to reseal the container.
All container loads have a seal number and the load's security can be clearly defined from Barking to Berec's customer in any part of the world. Since the company introduced the Cable Loc there has been no serious illegal tampering with any of the 6,000 container loads shipped over the past two years.