News / Overflows, queues, parking shortages create ‘perfect storm’ for cargo theft

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Despite a downward global trend from 2020-21, a step up in the proportion of organised crime, ‘internet-enabled’ theft, shortage of secure parking and queues and overspill from new Brexit border controls could create “the perfect storm” for European road freight theft in 2022, warns TT Club.

Industry professionals have long suspected last year was likely to have been the highest on record for global road freight theft, had cross-border crime not been hampered by lockdown restrictions.

Thorsten Neumann, president & CEO of ...