The Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA) has launched the most comprehensive industry security standards in its 23-year history to help protect freight facilities and trucking operations from the escalating threat of cargo crime, which now costs supply chains losses of millions of dollars per month.
The 2020 revisions of the Association’s Facility Security Requirements (FSR) and Trucking Security Requirements (TSR) – which take effect on 1 July 2020 and are valid for three years – aim to give TAPA’s Manufacturer and Logistics Service Provider members minimum standards to protect theft targeted goods. The global security requirements have been revised in consultation with TAPA’s international members to address new and emerging threats – such as the significant growth in attacks on Last Mile deliveries. As well as providing the most resilient and wide-ranging industry standards for supply chain security, the new FSR and TSR also provide improved cost efficiencies for users… American Journal of Transportation