Periódico independiente sobre economía y política de transporte
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CENTRO INTERNAZIONALE STUDI CONTAINERS
ANNO XXXVIII - Numero GIUGNO 2020
ROAD TRANSPORT
OVER 42% MORE SECURE PARKING PLACES
"The Transported Asset Protection Association's (TAPA)
programme to reduce cargo thefts and increase supply chain
resilience in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region has a
new partner: Bosch Secure Truck Parking, a digital booking platform
for truck parking spaces in Europe. The partnership is contributing
to a 42.9% growth in the Association's database of secure parking
places in the last 12 months."
Designed by its Manufacturer and Logistics Service Provider
members, TAPA's Parking Security requirement (PSR) industry standard
was launched in 2019 to help the Association's members identify
secure parking places in the region which met their security needs.
Product losses from vehicles left in unsecured parking locations
accounted for 53.8% of the 8,548 cargo thefts recorded by TAPA's
Incident Information Service (IIS) last year. Crimes were recorded
in 48 countries across the region, with a value of more than £137
million for the 39.1% of these incidents sharing financial data.
TAPA's PSR programme now covers over 6,700 secure parking places
at 63 sites in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands,
Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain and the United
Kingdom. TAPA hopes to increase this number to 15,000 by the end of
2020 to help meet growing demand. According to estimates, Europe
alone has a shortage of 400,000 secure parking spaces for trucks.
Bosch Secure Truck Parking operates a network of around 50
secure truck parking locations across Europe in Austria, Belgium,
France, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. New sites in
Romania and Sweden will be added soon. Under its commitment to
TAPA's PSR, the first two sites in Germany have already adopted
Partner status. As well as its online portal for secure parking,
Bosch operates one of Europe's largest monitoring centres for cargo
theft prevention as part of its portfolio of solutions, which also
include video cameras with intelligent video analytics.
Dr. Jan-Philipp Weers, Head of Bosch Secure Truck Parking, said:
"We appreciate the TAPA initiative to define an industry
standard for secure parking. TAPA is an authority for securing
supply chains. Parking places so far were a blind spot but TAPA has
now closed the gap with the introduction of its PSR programme.
TAPA's 20 years of offering sustainable industry standards for
facilities and trucking, as well as its broad supply chain
resilience focus, gives us confidence in its PSR Standard and we
expect more of our secure parking locations to join the programme."
"Bosch Secure Truck Parking joins many other professional
Parking Place Operators (PPOs) which are supporting TAPA's PSR. The
growth of this initiative is very good news for manufacturers and
their logistics partners because the lack of secure parking for
commercial vehicles operating in supply chains across EMEA is the
biggest single contributor to rising cargo crime. Based on losses
reported to TAPA, cargo thefts more than doubled in 2019 to a
23-year high. We still have a long way to go to meet the level of
demand for secure truck parking, but it is already clear that both
buyers and operators see TAPA's industry standard as the solution
they want to support. We are delighted to welcome Bosch as our
latest Partner and look forward to growing their participation in
our PSR programme," added Thorsten Neumann, President & CEO
of TAPA EMEA.
By integrating its unique incident information and secure
parking databases, TAPA members have access to a digital supply
chain resilience tool which identifies cargo crimes on specific
transport routings across EMEA to support risk assessment and loss
prevention as well as a listing of the nearest TAPA-approved secure
parking locations to ensure drivers, vehicles and high value, theft
targeted loads remain safe during mandatory rest breaks. This
includes a quick and easy guide to the site's facilities and booking
information.
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