The OP claims many stolen cars are exported under false manifests, so identifying a car and being able to compare that to the manifest helps. Once you can use m

The OP claims many stolen cars are exported under false manifests, so identifying a car and being able to compare that to the manifest helps. Once you can use manifests to identify cars (because you can spot containers trying to hide cars) you can put them through a different process – presumably this is part of the reason the manifests lie. Another thing is that I suspect most legitimate car exports go through a few companies so it may be that other shipping details can give big updates to your prior of whether it contains a stolen car.