container yard

Warrant Officer Sander states that container yards operate as businesses where containers get paid for every day they are there and inspectors need cooperation from the yard to do their job effectively.

“That container in that yard gets paid for every single day that it is there. It is an economy in our country. But my job is to do my job, now and today. So I will extend the invitation, guys, I need to inspect this container now. How long? You are messing me around, I am doing it without you. It is under camera, I have got witnesses, I proceed.”

Warrant Officer Sander explains that securing containers at yard takes place with seals, sometimes by SARS or the yard itself to insure against loss, requiring cordial relationships between police and yards.

“When I close that container, I do not have a container seal. So if it is a SARS detention, SARS needs to be there to put their seal on, but then the container yard must still supply me the resources to reseal that container, which is their yard seal. For insurance, they need to document that because it is a loss to that company. So the cordial relationship must exist.”