welcome 2 CHAIRMAN’S VIEWPOINT
WITH RECORDED CARGO LOSSES AVERAGING €477,419 A DAY IN EMEA IN THE LAST TWO MONTHS, WE MUST GIVE 'PROJECT CARGO' OUR FULL SUPPORT
As you will read in this issue, our law enforcement and justice partners in Project CARGO are continuously engaged in breaking up criminal groups in Europe, as highlighted by the latest arrests of a group believed to be responsible for some 36 cargo thefts with a loss value of €1.5 million.
I look forward to sharing more information on this with the more than 300 delegates joining us in Palma next month for TAPA EMEA’s final conference in 2018. There is no better place to gain so much supply chain security intelligence in the space of one and-a-half days. Our agenda includes presentations on supply chain risks in Spain and Belgium, the threats posed by cargo thieves using new technology tools, secure truck parking in Europe and cybercrime.
Earlier this month, Laurence Brown, our Executive Director, and I had the honour of representing TAPA EMEA at the first meeting of Project CARGO, a two-year EU-financed initiative to target mobile organised crime groups specialising in cargo theft.
TAPA is the first industry association to be invited to join the project, led by the German State Office of Investigation of Saxony-Anhalt, which brings together the combined expertise and authority of Europol, Eurojust and law enforcement agencies (LEA) of EU Member States. We intend to make the best possible
contribution to this group by sharing our intelligence and the knowledge we hold in our Association after more than 20 years as the leading Security Expert Network for everyone in the supply chain.
More LEAs will join the project and provide an even bigger opportunity to increase the focus on reducing cargo crime in Europe. It will also help us to raise TAPA’s profile within such a prestigious group and demonstrate our commitment to partnering with the EU and law enforcement to make our supply chains more secure, and to bring to justice those responsible for criminal attacks.
We applaud the proactiveness shown by all of the stakeholders in this group and I am confident it can make a significant difference.
‘In EMEA alone, in the 62 days of July and August, the 341 cargo crimes reported to TAPA’s IIS with a value, as reported in Vigilant, produced a total loss of €29.6 million. That’s €477,419 of products being stolen from supply chains in our region every day over just two months.’
The latest annual statistics from the South African Police Service (SAPS) remind us that we still have a great deal of work to do to gain more intelligence on cargo crimes in our region, not just in South Africa but right across the board. However, even though we are constantly reminding ourselves that incidents are significantly under-reported, the crimes we do record still show us why TAPA needs to continually be looking to do more.
In EMEA alone, in the 62 days of July and August, the 341 cargo crimes reported to TAPA’s IIS with a value, as reported in Vigilant, produced a total loss of €29.6 million. That’s €477,419 of products being stolen from supply chains in our region every day over just two months. And, it is statistics like these that are making agencies like Europol and Eurojust step up their efforts to target the criminals involved. We must stand shoulder-to-shoulder with them.
Thorsten Neumann Chairman
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