News / TAPA call for more secure parking for trucks across Europe as cargo crime soars

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Transport security organisation TAPA is launching a new initiative across Europe in a bid to stem increasing cargo theft from trucks.

TAPA is to contact around 115 parking locations to encourage them to beef up security to a defined standard and to allow companies to pre-book spaces.

It is also launching an online platform showing areas most at risk and where secure parking is located.

Some 57% of thefts from trucks occur at non-secure parking locations.

In the EU, 18bn tonnes of goods are transported each year – or ...