Ship and Cargo: Training, Security, Protection and Recovery - TSPR-MARSEC

CTSS Group and DT Gruelle Company is proud offer comprehensive security solutions for the shipping and logistics industries. Whether you need personnel security awareness guidance; training to be compliant with regulatory codes and protocols—such as ISPS; extra security precautions at a port facility; or physical protection on a shipment of LPG out of the Gulf or on a Container ship traveling from Rotterdam to Yokohama, CTSS is able to offer a comprehensive security solutions package and individualized officer and staff training programs - at certified facilities or onboard your vessels.

We can furthermore help train your employees as well as deploy our personnel to ensure your compliance with ISPS and other regulatory conventions as well as national and individual port security regulations. CTSS partners with the most respected maritime educational institutions to provide efficient and comprehensive educational options and compliance verification for shipping firms and their officers and crew. We can train your firm to ensure compliance with all international agreements and protocols as well as specific national requirements. We will also keep you abreast of changes to existing frameworks.

Our staff is sufficiently proficient to be able to defend your ship, cargo and personnel from most conceivable threats - such as piracy, hijack, theft and acts of terrorism. Our staff is specially trained and has experience in operating on the high seas, performing a number of different types of operations and security focused tasks. Marine vessels today face a multitude of threats—ranging from hijacking and hostage situations, terrorist attacks, the use of ships as vectors, use of the ship itself as a weapon or obstruction, to outright piracy and theft.

In today's high risk environment, with rampant criminal activity and acts of terrorism, having a professional and competent team onboard your vessel to ensure a stand-off distance and protect your personnel, assets and cargo for the entire or part of the journey is an invaluable measure of safety and insurance. CTSS staff will work closely with your ship's personnel to identify any potential threats and establish plans as to how best mitigate them. Our staff will furthermore be able to take decisive action should any unforeseen or potentially threatening situations arise, thus safeguarding your assets and employees and preventing harm and/or economic loss or potential liability issues. In today's environment - with hundereds of annual acts of piracy and with frequent kidnappings and rampant demands for ransom and extortion monies - doing what is necessary to defend life and property is fast becoming a financial and corporate necessity. The public figures moreover do not reflect incurred costs for lost cargo, the material damage caused and the economic loss suffered from shipping delays or the delay or loss of a vessel. These factors combine to put large pressures on owners, the kidnapped personnel as well as on the bottom line of the shipping company and the firms whose cargo it is transporting. Increasing both economic inefficiencies as well as insurance and operating costs.

CTSS staff furthermore has extensive capabilities in tracking your assets and cargo. Our team can - in conjunction with assuring security or as a stand alone measure - electronically screen, safeguard, tag and track your individual cargo, containers, or even vessels and their personnel in a safe, discrete and secure fashion. Thus helping to alert us and the client to any suspicious behavior or potential problem or delay with immediate effect as well as helping to secure the entire transportation chain; from manufacturing and loading, port delivery, seaborne transportation, off-loading and customs clearance to delivery. Giving the client an invaluable measure of control, safety as well as a security assurance.

We can furthermore provide asset recovery operations in the event of the loss of a vessel or cargo. With the great number of vessels - and their cargo - being robbed or hijacked every year, with some never to be seen again or being abandoned in places with little or no established political or legal order - our staff can arrange for the retrieval and return of your assets. CTSS staff has considerable experience working on recovery operations of cargo and transport ships as well as in negotiating the return of stolen cargo and property.

CTSS can furthermore coordinate with Coast Guard, Naval and other authorities to respond and rapidly interdict in case of any attempted attack - thus hopefully avoiding tragic incidents such as the incidents involving the Penrider, Silk Pride and the Dewi Madrim - on the high seas or littoral areas, ensuring the safety of the ship both in transit and as it calls on a port, hence ensuring safety and easing compliance requirements.