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Cargo crime on Europe’s roads continues to soar, growing by 10.3% in Q3, according to new data from the Transport Asset Protection Association (TAPA).

The association’s Incident Information Service (IIS) recorded 238 cargo crime incidents in the three months to 30 September 2015, including €1.4m of postage stamps stolen from a warehouse in Ile-de-France, near Paris and €635,000-worth of cosmetics and fragrances from a truck parked overnight in Rugby, UK.

And it is the increasing appetite for goods carried in freight vehicles ...