Theft of goods in ports: A review of TAPA EMEA IIS statistics
Rapport, 2018
We find that maritime transport facilities constitute a rare target location for cargo thieves, as only 102 of more than 24,500 incidents (0.4%) in the IIS database occur there. Nevertheless, some conclusions can be made. First, there seems to be seasonality in day of the week, but probably not in month of the year. Second, violent and fraudulent modi operandi of theft at maritime transport facilities are about as common as in the whole data set. Thus, it could be conjectured that the impact from violent and fraudulent incidents is several times higher than the most common types of incident category or modus operandi, although this is unsupported in this study. The product categories signal that there is big variation in value in stolen goods. Third, it is possible that potential perpetrators consider security levels at maritime transport facilities to be higher, leading to fewer theft attempts.
This study is limited by the content of and classifications within the TAPA EMEA IIS database
Författare
Daniel Ekwall
Högskolan i Borås
Björn Lantz
Chalmers, Teknikens ekonomi och organisation, Innovation and R&D Management
Ämneskategorier
Transportteknik och logistik
ISBN
978-951-29-7125-1