{"id":8710,"date":"2013-02-19T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2013\/02\/19\/handing-over-the-security-baton\/"},"modified":"2013-02-19T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T10:00:00","slug":"handing-over-the-security-baton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/terminal-operations\/handing-over-the-security-baton\/","title":{"rendered":"Handing over the security baton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The argument for this shift hinges on the claim that by outsourcing security to a professional company, the port operator can concentrate more on the core business. In addition, by hiring a third party to take on the security programme, a coherent, organised structure is encouraged, say third party security companies.<\/p>\n<p>David Fairnie, director of G4S Global Port Solutions, comments: \u201cWe have found that port operators are increasingly looking at secure outsourcing companies to provide strategic partnerships that help them focus on their core commercial product.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCustomers find that single supplier partnerships bring a more cohesive security infrastructure, reducing operating costs and increasing efficiencies. By using outsourcing companies, port operators can work with providers who intimately understand combined technology and manned guarding solutions, eliminating the risk of misalignment between these two critical elements of the services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurthermore, established multinational security providers can benefit customers by enabling the sharing of best practice from around the globe, including other ports as well as other dynamic environments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an increasingly competitive environment, ports and harbours are looking to take on professional strategic partners to manage their security, and allow them to be efficient, and most importantly, secure working environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most notable trends in recent years is that port operators are now outsourcing security to third parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-8710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terminal-operations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8710"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=8710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}