The Mexican logistics sector is one of the industries with the highest perception of insecurity, since according to the National Business Victimization Survey (ENVE) 2024, transporting products on roads or highways was the activity in which they reported feeling the most insecurity , with 52.2% , which meant an increase of more than two points compared to 2022, when it was 50 percent.
According to the results of said analysis by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), the movement of products in industrial corridors followed with 43.2% this year, while in 2022 it was 47 percent.
The survey also revealed that robbery of merchandise , money , supplies or goods is the second most frequently committed crime , with a crime prevalence rate of 1,030 per 10,000 economic units .
The states where this crime was most prevalent were Aguascalientes, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Coahuila, Colima, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Jalisco, State of Mexico, Nuevo Leon, Puebla, Queretaro, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Yucatan and Zacatecas.
Meanwhile, the theft of goods in transit showed a crime prevalence of 500 per 10 thousand economic units . The states where this crime was committed were Baja California Sur and Morelos.
In 2023, at the national level and as a result of having been victims of a crime, or to prevent being victims, economic units suspended various actions related to their business .
In this regard, in the logistics sector, companies opted to cancel distribution or sales routes for their products . The figures for economic units that stopped doing the least activities by federal entity were: Baja California with 5.1%, Sinaloa with 4.2% and Jalisco with 3.1%; at the national level, the preponderance was 6 percent.
On the contrary, the figures for economic units that stopped doing the most activities by state were: Hidalgo with 3.9%, San Luis Potosí with 4.6%, Morelos with 13.9%, and at the national level it was 6 percent.
Inegi explained that the objective of ENVE 2024 is to generate information on the characteristics of economic units that are victims of crime, the most representative common crimes and the damages caused, as well as the perception of insecurity and institutional performance, among other factors. This information is valuable for the design of public policies on security.
In this regard, the agency explained that in 2023, 2.9 million crimes were committed associated with 1.3 million economic units in the country, with a concentration rate of 2.2 crimes per unit.
Extortion was the most commonly committed crime , with a crime prevalence rate of 1,562 per 10,000 economic units , followed by theft or assault of merchandise , money , supplies or goods with 1,030, and petty theft with 1,002.
Regarding the type of establishments that had a higher rate of victimization , Inegi specified that the commerce sector headed this list with 31.5% , followed by the manufacturing industry with 21.6% , and the services sector with 24.2 percent .
Among other data, he pointed out that medium-sized companies had a higher rate of crimes with 49% and that economic units in the service sector had the highest concentration of crimes with 2.4 per unit .
The survey revealed that in 1.2 million crimes , employees or owners of the victim’s business unit were present at the time the crime occurred. Of these, in 5.3% of cases there was physical aggression. Of the crimes in which the offender carried a weapon, in 20.6% of cases it was used.
The analysis estimated that, in 2023, the total cost as a result of insecurity and crime in economic units represented an amount of 124.3 billion pesos , equivalent to 0.51% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) .
Regarding the perception of insecurity, he pointed out that 69.4% perceived the state in which they operate as unsafe; he also indicated that Guanajuato with 78.2%, Tabasco with 73.7%, and Morelos with 72.5% were the states with the highest rates of insecurity and crime.
According to information from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP) , in 2023, 9,179 robberies to transporters were reported in Mexico, which meant a growth of 3.9% compared to 2022.
According to said organization, during 2023, the monthly average was 764.9 thefts , so it is crucial to implement measures to reduce and inhibit this type of crime that affects the country’s logistics chain, since insecurity on the roads, among other factors, has generated a deficit of at least 56 thousand drivers in Mexico , a figure that could increase to 106 thousand by 2028, estimated the National Chamber of Cargo Transportation (Canacar) with data from the International Road Transport Union (IRU).
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