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TAPA EMEA INCIDENT INFORMATION SERVICE


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A lower rate of cargo crime data recorded by TAPA’s Incident Information Service (IIS) in Europe, the Middle East & Africa (EMEA) for the first half of 2021 appears to provide further evidence of the disruption caused to criminals’ activities by continuing Covid-related restrictions across the region.


In the period from 1 January-30 June, TAPA EMEA’s IIS database added 1,565 new cargo theft reports spanning 43 countries. Despite only 355 or 22.8% of these incidents stating a value, the financial loss for the half-year still produced a substantial total of €72,265,605 or an average of €399,257 every 24 hours for the 181 days in this period.


Intelligence provided to the Association in EMEA included 46 major cargo losses involving products of €100,000 or more. These high


value crimes accounted for €66,869,831 of the six-month total or an average per incident of €1,453,691. A further 39 incident reports stated losses of between €50,000 and €100,000 worth a combined €2,498,375 and an average of €64,060.


10 countries accounted for 89.8% of all cargo thefts recorded by TAPA’s IIS:


• United Kingdom – 466 (29.7%) • Spain – 258 (16.4%) • Germany – 202 (12.9%) • France – 157 (10%) • South Africa – 102 (6.5%) • Italy – 74 (4.7%) • Russia – 52 (3.3%) • Belgium – 38 (2.4%) • Denmark – 37 (2.3%) • Hungary – 25 (1.6%)


Of the remaining 154 incidents in a further 33 countries, five recorded double-digit incident rates:


• Poland – 21 incidents • Netherlands – 20


• Czech Republic – 16 • Romania – 13 • Nigeria – 11


Vigilant is unable to report a significant number of incidents added to the IIS database because this intelligence is only made available to members to use as part of their own supply chain resilience planning. Of the crimes which can be published, the top 10 highest value losses in H1/2021 involved:


€50,000,000 – Gold & diamonds


The biggest single cargo theft of the year to date took place in the Netherlands on 19 May.


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