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CAN YOU HELP?


VOLUNTEERS WANTED


TAPA EMEA needs more members to become PSR Ambassadors to drive unlimited secure truck parking growth opportunities…


TAPA’s Parking Security Requirements (PSR) are now firmly established as the fastest-growing secure truck parking industry standard … but the Association is now calling for more members to volunteer as PSR Ambassadors to accelerate its growth and to meet demand from many more Parking Place Operators (PPOs) interested in adopting the TAPA Standard.


There are already over 7,300 TAPA-approved secure truck parking places in the Association’s Security Parking Online Tool (SPOT) database at 71 locations in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain and the United Kingdom. Many more sites are in the process of joining.


Vigilant spoke to TAPA EMEA’s new PSR Lead, Ionel Popa, for a progress report…


Remind us why PSR is so important to the resilience of supply chains?


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The answer is simple. The lack of secure parking options means it is too easy for cargo thieves to target


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trucks, which results in multi-million-euro losses every year and severe risks to driver safety. Statistics show that more than 50% of all cargo thefts reported to TAPA’s Incident Information Service (IIS) involve trucks which stop in unclassified or unsecured parking places. It is now the biggest single cause of freight losses in our region, which is why TAPA is taking such decisive action to help our members protect their goods, vehicles and drivers.


What is the TAPA PSR team focusing on?


As a proven provider of industry-leading security standards for Facilities and Trucking over the last 20 years, we are now also putting in place the best secure truck parking Standard and certification programme to benefit both our members and the PPOs which adopt one of the levels of PSR. This is a Standard built for the industry by Subject Matter Experts


in the industry who are also the buyers of secure parking places, and the level of take- up and interest in PSR is growing month- by-month. We’re also actively encouraging our members to support the parking places that are demonstrating higher security levels because for PSR to realise its full potential, it must be embraced and implemented by every stakeholder; Manufacturers, Logistics Service Providers and Parking Place Operators.


Why would a Parking Place Operator be interested in joining the PSR programme?


Because their existing or potential customers moving high value/high risk cargoes are TAPA members, and our membership is growing at a record rate as more companies upgrade their supply chain resilience. And, because we are offering them a tremendous opportunity to be visible to our members by promoting their


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