What is high value logistics?
The rapid development of new high technology products during the 1990's saw computer related products, memory, and other connectivity gear become smaller, faster, more portable, more powerful... and more desirable to criminals.
As efforts to protect these valuable components in factories and warehouses became more sophisticated and successful, criminals began to target products in transit, and the concept of high value logistics was born.
High value logistics is an evolving branch of logistics where manufacturers and transporters of high value products join forces to share ideas and intelligence on how to address the alarming growth in worldwide high tech freight crime.
Examples of high value logistics in action include:
- Tailor made road transport solutions
- Specialist training of drivers & paired driving
- Convoy management & supervision
- Secure trailer parking sites
- Specific route mapping & contingency planning
- Specialist equipment and tracking systems
- Specialist knowledge & skilled employees
With the total cost of cargo crime estimated at between $30-60 billion annually, the need for a co-ordinated, continuous and proactive response to this type of crime has never been greater, and this proactivity is another key component of the high value logistics concept.
Norfolkline's integrated transport service, which includes shipping via its own ferry service and terminals, provide additional controls over security that make us a natural choice in this niche of logistics, and as an associate member of TAPA EMEA Norfolkline reports crime related incidents against their operations to the TAPA EMEA Incident Information Service (IIS) which has developed into a highly regarded database and analytical tool.
Norfolkline and law enforcement agencies use IIS bulletins and reports from TAPA EMEA to identify trends, ‘hot spots’ and criminal methods that can be incorporated in solution design and route mapping, ensuring that exposure of our customers to this ever increasing risk is minimised.