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Sharp fall in thefts from unclassified parking

[ June 21, 2023   //   ]

The Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA) says that thefts from trucks left in unclassified parking locations in the Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) region have reduced dramatically since the pandemic. Companies are taking more action to protect cargo, according to new data.

Based on reports of criminal attacks on supply chains in EMEA reported to the TAPA EMEA Intelligence System (TIS), while 53.4% or 6,545 of the 12,259 incidents in 2019 were in unclassified parking, in 2022, only 6.72% of the 12,378 freight thefts reported stated such a location.

President and chief executive of TAPA EMEA, Thorsten Neumann, said: “Overall cargo crime in the EMEA region is continuing to rise year-over-year, but … there is a clear and accelerating downward trend in the number of cargo crimes taking place in unclassified parking places. In 2018 and 2019, over 53% of all the incidents reported to TAPA EMEA annually stated this as the location. In the last 3 years, this percentage has been falling at an ever-faster rate; to 41.8% in 2020, 21.9% in 2021, and 6.7% last year. In 2023, the trend so far is even lower at 4.5%.

TAPA EMEA has been leading the drive to establish more secure truck parking places across the region to help companies protect drivers, vehicles, and their high value/theft targeted loads.

In 2018, the Association launched a new Parking Security Requirements (PSR) industry Standard for Parking Place Operators (PPOs) to help them identify the minimum security levels customers needed. PSR is now the most adopted Standard in EMEA for secure parking, with the TAPA EMEA PSR secure parking database with over 20,700 parking places at 87 locations in 16 countries, up 10% year-on-year. A new 2023 version of PSR was launched in January after a review of the Standard to take onboard new or emerging security threats.

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