Logistics UK teams up with TAPA to tackle cargo crime

The partnership will see both organisations share information and work together to increase resilience across the industry. The agreement forms part of Logistics UK's campaign to improving driver safety and welfare and follows other agreements with the National Vehicle Crime and Intelligence Service (NAVCIS)) and the app-based service Motorway Buddy. Both of these partnerships aim to improve reporting around vehicle crime and highlight ways for drivers to avoid and prevent potential criminal attacks on vehicles.

Maddi Solloway-Price, Logistics UK head of road freight policy, said: "The safety and security of our members' staff while delivering for the economy is of paramount importance, which makes our partnership with TAPA EMEA such a great fit for us. "As the world's leading supply chain security and resilience association, TAPA EMEA is committed to helping minimise losses from its members through information sharing, training and monitoring. "By tapping into their expertise, and sharing our own knowledge with them, we are confident that the partnership will help to drive awareness of and create solutions for future issues, before they occur."

Thorsten Neumann, TAPA EMEA president and chief executive, added: "Growing industry collaboration to highlight the threat of cargo crime to supply chains in the UK, and increasing awareness at a government level, is very encouraging. "TAPA EMEA and our members are only too aware of the high level of freight crime across the UK. As well as gathering and sharing more intelligence to understand when, where, and how these crimes occur, we also encourage industry stakeholders to use the various security and crime prevention solutions already available to reduce the chances of falling victim to cargo crime."

As part of the new partnership, representatives of Logistics UK will be attending the annual conference organised by TAPA EMEA, to discuss ways of working together and sharing information with their members. Sollway-Price said: "Logistics UK is redoubling its efforts to improve the safety and security of hauliers operating on the UK's strategic road network by  improving information flows across the industry and sharing best practice to keep drivers and their vehicles as safe as possible. "Our industry is one that the economy relies upon to deliver on time and our drivers are the backbone of that service - any information and guidance that we can share between our organisations will help to keep us all as well informed as possible to counteract potential criminal attacks.

"Meanwhile, we will continue to share all intelligence that we gather with government representatives as we press for an improved nationwide network of secure parking and rest facilities."