Hundreds of thousands of Fuente Cigars Stolen.

[El Presidente]

What an awful situation and I feel for them. What a huge kick in the guts. 

Losing a 40 foot container puts a big hole in your inventory. 

Let's hope that they put this behind them asap. 

[JohnS]

A whole 40-foot (12 metres) container vanished? I have every confidence that the culprits will get caught. Yes, I feel sorry for Fuente, for despite the fact that the stock would be insured, there's still surmountable losses in inventory, excesses and lost income.

[Cep]

Wow. Unreal.

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[Jfeath74]

I work in cargo insurance and carrier liability, lets hope they have a decent policy, regardless it's going to be a major blow for Fuente. 

[Guest Nekhyludov]

Very unfortunate to hear. Gladly, I don't see how this could end well for the thieves. Fencing hundreds of thousands of Fuentes can't be easy. I would imagine any attempt to do so would immediately raise huge red flags. 

[havanaclub]

Terrible news.


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[dvickery]

In China someplace by now I imagine ... or Russia or ???

derrek

[mygar]

Wow...whole container load? That sux... you think about logistics of a heist like that... no common theives. As mentioned, hope their insurance policy is adequate.

[BellevilleMXZ]

That's a lot of cigars to hide and peddle lets hope they get caught.

[David88]

This seems almost unbelievable. The article suggests that there is currently a degree of limited availability of Fuente cigars and this will certainly make that worse. Hopefully the people responsible are found soon. 

[hababa]

I'm sure they have adequate coverage - smells like an inside job. 

[Smallclub]

26 minutes ago, hababa said:

 - smells like an inside job. 

smells like conspiracy theory adept…

[Dozerhead]

How in the heck do you steal a 40 foot container?

[zeedubbya]

18 minutes ago, Dozerhead said:

How in the heck do you steal a 40 foot container?

At 1:30 there's a little insight.  "You might know who we are, but we know who you are."  

Seriously a terrible tragedy for the Fuentes.  Hard to believe this could happen with all the electronics we have today.  

 

[Jimmy_jack]

These are inter-model containers. Was probably already on a trailer and ready to roll, if not at a midway holding point. A lot of times these thieves make a call and have a buyer before they are ever pulling them. 

[kuma]

Holy smoke does anyone know how many cigars that adds up too because my calc. does not have

that many zeros.   If I was a betting man I'd say they are

all ready in the deep grey market world by now and some of them are already on their way to the big ash in the sky.

 

[Dimmers]

4 hours ago, JohnS said:

I have every confidence that the culprits will get caught

nope fuggedaboutit :-)

 

 

[mrsgucia]

1 hour ago, Dozerhead said:

How in the heck do you steal a 40 foot container?

Sink it with torpedo shaped piramides extra.. they only good fo that ( tubos) 

[Fuzz]

1 hour ago, Dozerhead said:

How in the heck do you steal a 40 foot container?

Surprisingly easy.

 

52 minutes ago, Jimmy_jack said:

These are inter-model containers. Was probably already on a trailer and ready to roll, if not at a midway holding point. A lot of times these thieves make a call and have a buyer before they are ever pulling them. 

Yep. If it is on a trailer, you can hijack/steal it anywhere after leaving port. Apparently Florida is 3rd in the US for the most cargo thefts recorded.

http://www.truckinginfo.com/channel/fleet-management/news/story/2016/11/truck-cargo-thefts-figures-mixed-overall-value-of-heists-falls.aspx

[Jimmy_jack]

@Fuzz Between Jacksonville, Tampa and Miami its the Bermuda Triangle of cargo theft.

[Fuzz]

@Jimmy_jack Wouldn't surprise me. Lots of places for a truck to go missing.

[beparrish]

This is a damn shame. The Fuentes are a wonderful family, and I hate to see this happen to them. Hope the cigars are quickly recovered.

[PigFish]

... been meaning to post this awhile now. I have a rather large collection of NCs to sell. Contact me and HitchTheBitchAndRunTrucking.com. We operate outta' Haiti. Just ask for Big Ray... We also have lovely girls for dating and marriage! -LOL

On a more sober note, when I was a kid I did some unpacking of these containers for a bicycle maker/importer. Losing a container is not as rare as one might think.

-Piggy

 

[finecigar]

I am wondering... they stated "hundreds of thousands of cigars" - now is that 200,000 or 999,999 cigars? I'd say there's a significant difference. Nonetheless, a devastation to their company. 

[ReelMan]

17 hours ago, Dozerhead said:

How in the heck do you steal a 40 foot container?

And how big does the humidor have to be to house all of them???????