The Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA) will mark its 20th anniversary with its biggest ever global conference to consider how new technologies, changing consumer demands and the responses of manufacturers and logistics service providers will impact on the future of supply chain security. The two-day event in London on 25 & 26 October, 2017, promises to take its audience of more than 500 supply chain security professionals on a journey into the future, exploring how … [Read more...] about TAPA to host their biggest global event for security professionals
Thorsten Neumann
TAPA calls for more data sharing as cargo crime reaches 3-year high
On the back of a surge in cargo crime, up 115 per cent to nearly 450 reported cases in the EMEA region over the first quarter this year alone, the Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA) is calling for more active partnerships and data sharing. Increased sharing of cargo crime data by law enforcement agencies will enable manufacturers and logistics service providers to further protect high value/theft attractive goods in supply chains said TAPA. This will also help relieve pressure on … [Read more...] about TAPA calls for more data sharing as cargo crime reaches 3-year high
Europe subjected to 3 cargo thefts daily, says TAPA
There was an average of three major cargo crimes a day targeting high value, theft-attractive products in the supply chain in Europe in 2014 with an average loss of €205,624, according to the Transported Asset Protection Association’s (TAPA) 2014 Incident Information Service (IIS) Annual Report for the EMEA region. For the year as a whole, TAPA EMEA recorded 1,102 incidents of cargo crime in the region. For the 33 per cent of crimes reporting a value, total losses for the year … [Read more...] about Europe subjected to 3 cargo thefts daily, says TAPA
