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Insurer TT Club is warning the freight industry that a super El Niño weather event could be a systemic shock to the already strained global supply chains.
With the world now officially in an El Niño climate pattern, the latest forecasts suggest it could be one of the strongest on record, with the European Commission's Joint Research Centre saying the outlook is "potentially historic", withf widespread and simultaneous disruption across multiple ...
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Brazil, Mexico, India, the US, Indonesia, Chile, China, Germany, and South Africa were the top countries for recorded cargo theft, according to TT Club and BSI Consulting. The 2025 Cargo Theft Report, published on 21 April, said that Ecuador experienced one of the sharpest increases of any nation, with theft ...
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Cargo crime is escalating across the Benelux region, according to the 2026 Freight Crime Report published by insurer TT Club and supply chain risk adviser BSI Consulting, in partnership with TVM.
It identified the ports of Antwerp-Bruges and Rotterdam as major hotspots for crime, with highways including the E19, E17, A67 ...
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Food and beverages were the most frequently stolen goods, accounting for 22% of the total, said the BSI Consulting and TT Club 2024 Cargo Theft Report published on 23 April.
Some 76% of incidents involved trucks, including 21% hijackings and 20% theft of vehicles. Nearly half occurred when cargo was in ...
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TT Club is warning cargo handling and terminals operators that fire remains a major cause of damage and losses to port and terminal equipment. The insurance specialist’s analysis of a ten-year claims history shows that of the near 1,600 fire-related claims it has received over that period, 19% have involved ...
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Climate events are impacting canal operations and are widely forecast to get worse in the future, warns insurer TT Club.
In 2024, the hottest year on record globally, European waterways continued to experience significant disruption to cargo transport. In June the Rhine suffered torrential rain leading to severe flooding in southern ...
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The TT Club says that the House of Commons debate in December highlighted the lack of resources specifically targeted at fighting freight crime.
The insurer says that the National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service (NaVCIS) is under-supported and under-funded. Its specialist freight crime investigation team currently has just one full-time serving police ...
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The TT Club Innovation in Safety Award is now open for entries. It is available to all those making a significant difference to safety in cargo transport. For judging criteria and an entry form visit: https://ichca.com/entering-the-tt-club-innovation-in-safety-award
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Insurer TT Club is calling on all players in the global supply chain to recognise their responsibility for accurate and effective communication about dangerous goods, following the recent spate of container ship fires.
There have been four major incidents, two in port and another two at sea within the last four ...
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Insurer TT Club has warned that container seals are being ignored and that opportunities to identify location, method and perpetrators of cargo theft are being missed. In its latest Security Bulletin, the Club says that personnel at the receiving warehouse view the seal as a nuisance, something that needs to ...
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