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Cautionary tales about past disasters have rarely spawned industry-wide changes. ‘As the old saying goes, everyone talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it,’ states a report by McKinsey of the resilience of value chains. But as the world begins to slowly recover from the social and economic disruption of COVID-19, this time, the company says, the outcome might be different.

If you had a dollar or a euro for every time the words ‘supply chain’ and ‘resilience’ have been quoted in the media and boardrooms across the globe since the COVID-19 pandemic took over all of our lives, you’d probably be looking forward to a sun-drench retirement free of all of the headaches and hurdles facing business leaders right now and, let’s be honest, probably for many years to come.

Supply chain resilience continues to occupy the minds of the great and the good – and, it seems,...

ALL ABOARD – NEW WHITE PAPER OFFERS ADVICE ON PREVENTING TRUCK STOWAWAYS IN EUROPE

In May, Europol – the European Union’s law enforcement agency – warned of a ‘new wave’ of irregular migration as border control measures,...

TAPA RECORDS 118 CARGO THEFTS IN JUNE AND LOSSES ABOVE €4.3M AS THIEVES TARGET A DIVERSE RANGE OF PRODUCTS IN 14 COUNTRIES

TAPA recorded 118 cargo theft incidents in the Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) region in June with a total loss value of €4,383,994 for...

TAPA EMEA SIGNS MOU WITH NAVCIS FOR A GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF UK CARGO CRIME

The United Kingdom is seen to be one of the world’s biggest ‘hotspots’ for cargo thefts but while incident rates are undeniably high, the...

TAPA’S SECURE PARKING DATABASE BREAKS THROUGH THE 7,000 BARRIER AS MORE SITES JOIN UP IN EMEA

The number of secure parking places within TAPA EMEA’s Parking Security Requirement (PSR) database broke through the 7,000 barrier in July...

PICKING UP PACE

It’s 12 months since Thorsten Neumann was tasked with leading TAPA EMEA’s seismic shift from a voluntary association to a professional...

LOCKDOWN CONTINUED TO LOWER INCIDENT RATES IN MAY BUT LOSSES STILL SURPASSED €2.3M ACROSS 17 COUNTRIES IN EMEA

Cargo thefts reported to TAPA’s Incident Information Service (IIS) in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region in May continued to...

TAPA PARTNERS WITH BOSCH SECURE TRUCK PARKING, BOOSTING SECURE PARKING PLACES BY OVER 42% IN 12 MONTHS

TAPA’s programme to reduce cargo thefts and increase supply chain resilience in the Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) region has a new...

TAPA WARNS OF A SIGNIFICANT SPIKE IN CARGO THEFTS AS CRIMINALS GET BACK TO ‘BUSINESS AS USUAL’

Manufacturers and logistics service providers must be prepared to protect their supply chains from a projected significant spike in cargo...

BACK TO BUSINESS – EUROPOL WARNS OF CYBERATTACKS AND A NEW WAVE OF IRREGULAR MIGRATION

Two new reports by EU law enforcement agency, Europol, highlight resurgent criminals posing new and increased threats in the ‘new normal’ of...