Over eight billion Euros worth of truck cargo is stolen in Europe each year. The absence of security at many of the existing motorway locations results in audacious cases of cargo theft daily.
The EuroTAP 2010 results of inspections conducted this spring in 26 major tunnels in 13 European countries indicate that an alarming number of operational tunnels across Europe will not be ready to comply with EU tunnel safety rules when they come into effect in 2014.