The Transported Asset Protection Association’s (TAPA) Parking Security Requirements (PSR) Standard for truck parking locations, developed by manufacturers, insurers, and logistics service providers to protect drivers, cargos, and vehicles, has increased its network of sites by over 150% year-on-year covering 17 countries in Europe.
PSR is a minimum supply chain security Standard designed to help Parking Place Operators demonstrate their safety and security credentials to users and provides a database for freight transport and logistics operators to identify safer parking places.
The Standard also supports TAPA EMEA’s Parking & Awareness campaign to enhance driver safety and supply chain security, which will see the Association give away some 50,000 free ‘Security & Awareness Driver Training’ courses to its member companies in 2026.
More Parking Place Operators are adding their locations to the TAPA network in the Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) region because they recognise PSR as a parking Standard which has been created ‘by the industry, for the industry,’ aligning with the Association’s other global security Standards for facilities (FSR), trucking (TSR), and cybersecurity (CSS).
All of TAPA EMEA’s supply chain security Standards are designed to combat the significant rise in freight thefts across EMEA. As the region’s leading cargo security and supply chain resilience industry association, TAPA EMEA provides its more than 1,100 companies members with a unique database of cargo crime intelligence to increase their awareness of risks, to mitigate threats, to improve the safety of personnel, and to prevent losses.
In the last 2 years to March 2026, the TAPA EMEA Intelligence System (TIS) has recorded 39,422 freight theft incidents in 50 countries across the region, with the 14.7% of crimes sharing their loss value producing a combined loss of €1,159,730,723. This is the equivalent of €1,586,498 of goods moving in supply chains being targeted by organised crime groups and others every 24 hours for the last 2 years.
Major cargo thefts recorded over the past two years – crimes with a loss value of €100,000 or more – produced an average loss of €984,705.
TAPA EMEA’s parking database now lists some 230 parking sites in Austria, Belgium. Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. A combination of TAPA-certified sites as well as operators which have signed the Association’s Parking Place Declaration (PPD), these sites provide some 20,000 parking places for trucks.
The growth of the TAPA Standard is also being driven by support from SNAP, the digital ecosystem of mobility solutions for transport fleets, drivers, and service partners, and TRAVIS Road Services, Europe’s largest truck parking network. Also, in February, Moto Hospitality, the UK’s largest operator of motorway service areas, signed TAPA’s PPD covering 44 of its nationwide locations.
“What we are seeing is two significant developments. Firstly, the ‘gap’ in the supply of truck parking places appears to be as much to do with visibility as it does safety and security. And, secondly, the momentum behind our PSR Standard clearly demonstrates that major booking platforms, motorway service operators, and Parking Place Operators all see the greatest value in being part of a parking network that is being driven by the requirements of manufacturers and transport, freight, and logistics providers, and the Standard they have helped to create,” said Thorsten Neumann, President & CEO of TAPA EMEA.
He added: “Whilst we continue to promote the importance of secure truck parking, we are also accelerating our activities to connect with more Parking Place Operators across EMEA to bring them into our network and to give our members visibility of more parking places. Of course, we validate each site before they can join our database, but our priority is to create a bigger network of professional parking locations, and closer collaboration with more operators because it then becomes easier for them to review their customers’ requirements and to raise their safety and security levels accordingly, with the support of PSR. Our priority in the EU is not to focus solely on secure parking but, even more importantly, to boost visibility of more truck parking places via our industry Association network because this is what supply chain stakeholders tell us they need.”
Parking Place Operators can find out how to add their locations to TAPA EMEA’s parking network database by contacting info@tapaemea.org
