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TAPA sites soar – but so does freight crime

[ April 14, 2026   //   Chris Lewis ]

The number of sites accredited to Transported Asset Protection Association’s (TAPA)’s Parking Security Requirements Standard for truck parking locations has increased by over 150% year-on-year.

PSR, covering 17 countries in Europe, is a minimum standard to help parking place operators demonstrate their safety and security credentials to users and provides a database for freight transport and logistics operators to identify safer parking places.

The TAPA standards are designed to combat the significant rise in freight thefts. TAPA EMEA provides its more than 1,100 companies members with a unique database of cargo crime intelligence to increase their awareness of risks, to mitigate threats, to improve the safety of personnel, and to prevent losses.         

In the last 2 years to March 2026, the TAPA EMEA Intelligence System (TIS) has recorded 39,422 freight theft incidents in 50 countries across the region. The 14.7% of crimes for which the value was disclosed produced a combined loss of almost €1.2 billion or €1,586,498 every 24 hours.

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