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30th Jan 2012 | TAPA Asia releases Fourth Quarterly Newsletter
15th Nov 2011 | News Release | TAPA LAUNCHES NEW TRUCKING SECURITY REQUIREMENTS TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST $10 BILLION LOSSES FROM ORGANIZED CRIME ON INTERNATIONAL HIGHWAYS
August/September 2011 | TAPA Asia LookOut newsletter
17th September 2011 | TAPA Condemns the Murder of Truck Driver and the attack of his helper in hijacking of a truck carrying toiletries in the Philippines
Summer 2011 | Three regions, one goal in the fight against cargo crime
16th-17th June 2011 | TAPA FSR Training, Manila, Philippines
14th April 2011 | Rising from Triple Disasters ?TAPA Japan Chapter
29th March 2011 | US Patent and TM Certificate
15th October 2010 | Collaboration of Singapore Institute of Material Management (SIMM) and TAPA Asia
11th September 2010 | TAPA Asia releases Second Quarterly Newsletter
25th May 2010 | TAPA Asia releases First Quarterly Newsletter
5th April 2010 | News Release | TAPA "C" Freight Security Requirements Becomes a Certifiable Standard in Asia
23rd Nov 2009 | News Release | TAPA Asia launches Incident Information Service
3rd Jul 2009 | TAPA Asia Set ups China Anti-Crime Task Force
30th Jan 2012 | TAPA Asia releases Fourth Quarterly Newsletter
TAPA Asia releases the fourth quarterly association newsletter. A colourful 18 page newsletter is now available.Please click here to download.
15th Nov 2011 | News Release | TAPA LAUNCHES NEW TRUCKING SECURITY REQUIREMENTS TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST $10 BILLION LOSSES FROM ORGANIZED CRIME ON INTERNATIONAL HIGHWAYS
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August/September 2011 | TAPA Asia LookOut newsletter
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14th April 2011 | Rising from Triple Disasters ?TAPA Japan Chapter
About 40 days have passed since the incident of March 11, 2011, officially named "Eastern Japan's Great Earthquake". We had triple blows this time: earthquake of magnitude 9.0 shattering essential utilities such as power lines, gas-lines, water supplies, etc.; Tsunami which gushed to the shorelines without any delay after the shake taking lives of over 13,000 people with over 15,000 lives still unaccounted for; and, the last and the most fearful, Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant Explosion imposing hundreds of thousands of the afflicted to evacuate, for how long, nobody knows. As time passes, international media tend focuses more on the radioactive contamination situations which has resulted in a harmful rumor such as banning importation of products by foreign countries ranging from food stuff to sheet metal; just today, it was reported that it was decided to attach radioactivity measurement results to export products. Yes, the media's position may be justified in view of the fact that International Nuclear Event Scale was escalated to level 7, the same level as the Chernobyl accident; but records should be kept straight that the estimated quantities of released radioactive iodine and cesium is about 10 % of Chernobyl (so far) though the release of contaminated water is 400 times the Japan's limit which may be more alarming in a long run. It is said that within a week after the incident, about 70 per cent of foreign students and workers fled from Tokyo to their native countries though Tokyo is some 240 kilometers south of Fukushima. A British friend of mine working for TAPA CA took a trouble of buying a radiation dosimeter to measure radioactivity for himself some 30 kilometers away from the site, just to make sure of the values given by the government.
Meanwhile, it has to be noted as well that quiet dedications of the locals, with great helps of US military and self-defense force of Japan, have made major achievement such as partial restoration of Sendai Airport flights, Shinkansen (a bullet train) to Sendai, opening of a fish market of tsunami-afflicted fishing ports, to name a few. However, due to a unique geographical setting of the area, namely deeply indended coast lines somewhat similar to fiord of Norway, we have little land to build temporary homes. We are optimistic, though, that we will recover as we had recovered in the past from magnitude 8 Kanto Great Earthquake in 1923, Bombing of Tokyo in WWII, and A-bomb attacks in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Industrial recovery may also be a long process. For one month after the quake, all major automotive companies could not operate, and only on the anniversary day of April 11, Honda, Nissan and Toyota have resumed at about half capacity due to limited availability of electronic parts; full production may be projected in summer. Electronic farms such as Shin-Etsu Handotai (semiconductor) and Renesas Electronics having their semiconductor factories in Fukushima and Ibaraki Prefectures have to stop their operations until mid-April. Furthermore, a semiconductor factory of Toshiba which was scheduled to start the operation on April 11 had to be postponed it for about a week due to a strong after-quake. Additionally, many chemical products companies including Mitsubishi Chemical and Sumitomo Metal Industries on the coast line of Ibaraki Prefecture suffered from Tsunami and can only reopen in mid-May. In short, key industries in Japan had suffered across the board.
Many international trade shows and conferences have been cancelled for external and internal reasons. Foreign visitors shy away from Tokyo and have cancelled attendance despite a significant distance from Fukushima; internally, major convention centers are being used as shelters for evacuees. In addition, grounds of some of the convention centers which were built on reclaimed lands were liquefied and water spewed out from the ground.
Despite the above gloomy pictures, our celebrated "Cherry Trees" are again in full bloom now and the hot spring, ironically a great gift from volcanos and crustal movement, wells out soothing warm water with murmur. With your kind help, concern, input, and prayer we will rebuild our beloved land into a BCM-robust, eco-friendly state.
Narihiko Asou
Chairperson
TAPA Japan Chapter
15th October 2010 | Collaboration of Singapore Institute of Material Management (SIMM) and TAPA Asia
SIMM and TAPA Asia announce collaboration of training in TAPA courses. Please click here to see news release.
11th September 2010 | TAPA Asia releases Second Quarterly Newsletter
TAPA Asia releases the second quarterly association newsletter. A colourful newsletter is now available. Please click here to download.
25th May 2010 | TAPA Asia releases First Quarterly Newsletter
TAPA Asia releases the first quarterly association newsletter. A colourful 12 page newsletter is now available. Please click here to download.
5th April 2010 | News Release | TAPA 'C' Freight Security Requirements Becomes a Certifiable Standard in Asia
TAPA Asia announced today that the TAPA 'C' Freight Security Requirements is now a Certifiable Standard in Asia. Please click here for the news release.
23rd Nov 2009 | News Release | TAPA Asia launches Incident Information Service
TAPA亚洲启用事故信息服务
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3rd Jul 2009 | TAPA Asia Set ups China Anti-Crime Task Force
TAPA Asia set up China anti-crime task force aim at creating a safe and secured environment for supply chain.
SHANGHAI: Following a security workshop with manufacturers, law enforcement agencies and transport & logistics providers hosted by the Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA) Asia in Shanghai, TAPA Asia announced the formation of a new anti-cargo crime taskforce for China (CACCTF). The steering committee of the newly formed CACCTF aims to raise the level of co-operation with China authorities in order to achieve a safer and more secured environment for supply chain.
The cost of global cargo theft, according the US FBI's report in 2006, is conservatively estimated to be USD15 -30 billion a year. Adding the cost of investigating to these incidents, processing insurance paperwork and paying claims and the actual annual business impact of cargo crime can easily hit USD 60 billion. Hi-tech products, such as cell phone, IPOD, MP4, chips, laptop and memory sticks continue to be favorite crime targets.
At the security workshop, participants discussed the importance of cooperation between the industry and police authorities, importance of risk assessment and intelligence sharing, timely reporting all cargo theft to the police, and also measures for manufacturers and their logistics providers to reduce the vulnerability of cargo to theft.
Jason Teo, chairman of TAPA Asia, said: "The purpose for this workshop is to create an opportunity for cooperation between the industry and enforcement agencies in China, with the single objective of enhancing the security environment for safe transit of shipment in China. Having brought both the manufacturers and freight services providers together to set up global security standards for warehousing, trucking, and air-cargo transit stops at airport, it is timely to move forward and join forces with local authorities in the fight against cargo crime. Local enforcement agencies need the support of the industry players, and vice- versa, to reduce cargo crime and make China a safe haven for cargo transit. TAPA Asia is confident that this cooperation will be beneficial for everyone. Together, we can reduce supply chain cargo security risks in China to the lowest in the world."
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