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EMEA REGION DATA


€180,000


On 12 September, thieves stole two tractor units and a trailer worth €180,000 from the Origin Facility of a manufacturing company in Hamm in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.


€162,255


Metal products were taken from an HGV in an unclassified parking location in Doncaster, UK, on 19 August after offenders cut the curtain side of the vehicle and forced open its rear doors.


€151,438


On 27 August, an offender claiming to be a member of staff at a secured premises in Stockton-on-Tees in the United Kingdom requested a set of keys to an HGV loaded with an unspecified high value shipment. After driving the vehicle away from the site, the goods were transferred to another HGV but the entire load was later recovered by law enforcement officers.


€147,711


A shipment of alcohol was stolen from a truck parked at a motorway service area in Haddon, UK, on 18 August after thieves cut the back door padlocks and seals of the attended vehicle.


€141,870


Offenders climbed onto open freight cars of a train transporting ferrous scrap metal in Gryzai, Russia, on 16 September, and threw around 850kgs of metal onto the side of the tracks, which they intended to collect later. However, whilst dumping the cargo, some of the metal fell onto the track causing several freight cars to derail. Two offenders were arrested by


police.


€129,804


Miscellaneous goods were stolen from an HGV and trailer parked at a motorway service area in Wolverhampton in the UK on 20 August.


€100,000


In Straubenhardt, Germany, on 1 August, three offenders broke into company premises and ransacked the facility before stealing the keys to several company vans. The offenders then stole three empty trucks and fled the scene. Police were able to track the vehicles via GPS and located them in Prague in the Czech Republic, where the offenders were also arrested.


In addition to these major incidents, TAPA’s IIS recorded a further 18 cargo thefts with loss values of between €50,000 and €100,000. These included:


€85,000 – the theft of a parked and unattended tractor-trailer truck in Wittenberg, Germany, on 3 August, which was later found abandoned on the A12 in Frankfurt


€81,127 – two trailers with no loads were hitched up and stolen from an unclassified parking location in Lymm in the North West of England on 29 August


€75,448 – in Alvechurch in the UK on 6 August, miscellaneous goods were stolen from an attended HGV at a motorway service station


€75,315 – a truck loaded with alcohol was hijacked in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, on 3 September and driven to another location to be offloaded. With the help of a security tracking company, police managed to recover most of the stolen liquor at a warehouse near Schoenmakerskop


€64,000 – 42 televisions were stolen from an HGV on 27 August in Guxhagen, Germany


€51,644 – computers/ laptops were stolen from an HGV and trailer on 26 August, which was parked at Trowell motorway service area in the UK


€50,922 – another truck hijacking in South Africa. In this incident in Bedfordview on 11 September, a gang of offenders stole a shipment of grocery products. They were discovered by police later the same day as they were offloading the cargo from the stolen trailer unit. Police also recovered firearms and a GPS jamming device


€50,099 - truck hijackers were also active in Cape Town, South Africa, using a jamming device to help steal a vehicle loaded with 36 pallets of sparkling wine. The fully loaded truck was later found on 18 September and several arrests have been made.


Over this two-month reporting period, TAPA received reports of cargo thefts in 26 countries across the EMEA region. The increased level of incident reporting resulting from TAPA EMEA’s new MoU with NaVCIS in the United Kingdom meant it continued to be the country with the majority of crimes recorded in the IIS database, with 333 or 66.3% of the August/ September total.


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