Human trafficking is a multi-billion dollar criminal industry that transports people illegally across borders for forced labor and sex trafficking. An estimated 800,000-900,000 people worldwide are internationally trafficked each year, the majority being women and children. Human traffickers exploit victims by concealing them in shipping containers for transport, subjecting them to inhumane conditions with risks of death from hypoxia, malnourishment or dehydration. Port security needs training to identify signs of human trafficking in shipping containers to help combat this criminal industry.

1. Human Trafficking And How it Relates to Port Security By: Michael Dozier,MS,PA

2. Human trafficking is a multi-billion dollar industry

6. The majority of victims are women and children. A 2003 report by USAID estimated between 800,000 -900,000 people worldwide are internationally trafficked

7. Child Trafficking

10. 2 million containers originate from China annually on an average 2 week voyage. Victims are forced to live in inhuman conditions, facing the possibility of hypoxia, malnourishment,dehydration and death.

11. 40ft Steele Container Sealed From the Outside

12. Criminal organizations are choosing trafficking because, the victims can be used repeatedly and trafficking requires little investment

13. Human Cargo = Less Risk Greater Profit

14. It is far more difficult for customs to find containers with human trafficking victims

15. We must develop programs to instruct port security on what signs to look for. http://ken-foundation.blogspot.com/p/human-trafficking.html

17. How to combat human trafficking

19. NGO'S can assist the government in educating the public about this growing problem

22. Thank You Michael Dozier,MS,PA