Supply chain theft, technology adaptation, and Covid-related insurance risks are in focus in this week’s Freight News feature.
Speaking to Freight News, Thorsten Neumann, chief executive officer of the Transported Asset Protection Association (Tapa) said that cargo crime data captured by Tapa Emea’s incident information service (IIS) had shown that South Africa was one of the areas with the highest number of recorded incidents in the first six months of the year.
Quoted in the feature, Timothy Thom, senior underwriter at Lombard Insurance, discusses Vuca, the world’s latest trendy managerial acronym, short for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. Thom explains that the past year has pushed the industry and country to look internally and externally to adjust and change and adopt a new set of technology, innovation, and way of working.
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