Sounds like it, but I’m still interested in finding out how big a deal it is. A quick search shows that there have been cars found with duplicate VINs and making a container with the same serial number seems like pretty pedestrian crime in comparison. That is not to say that this is a crime, could just be plain old manufacturing mistakes and it’s also obvious that not all container management systems check for it (even if it did, unless both end up in the same registry it won’t matter anyway).
I have a custom license plate on my car in my state. A friend of mine told me they saw the same custom license plate on the same vehicle make/model in another state. The only bummer was that that car's color was red, whereas mine is yellow. So two cars with same plate is totally doable if issuing authorities are different. Two cars with same plate from same issuing authority, that's the problem
