Port and maritime security in the Netherlands

A port terminal is not a business park with one barrier. Your site is large, often with several gates for trucks, staff and visitors, and with the quay and waterline as open flanks. There is movement 24 hours a day: containers coming and going, ships loading and discharging, drivers in the queue, forwarders and customs inspections. The risk profile ranges from unauthorised access and cargo theft to stowaways, sabotage and incidents with drivers at the gate.

That calls for port officers who watch more than the barrier. They verify ID, transport documents and licence plates at the gate, spot deviating behaviour around quay and storage, keep the flow calm under pressure and handle an incident without stopping the operation. Kilic Security supplies dedicated crews that do this work every day, from a single gate on a single terminal to multiple sites under one contract.

No two port sites are the same. A container terminal handles different flows from a bulk terminal, waterfront warehousing carries different risks from an offshore supply base. We work for clients across most of the port sector and tailor staffing, procedures and conduct of our officers to your terminal:

• Container terminals and stevedores: gate control, truck check-in support, licence plate recognition and rounds through the stack area and along the quay
• Bulk and breakbulk terminals: access control for drivers and contractors, oversight of loading and discharging and closing rounds across large sites
• Warehousing and distribution on the waterfront: gate and reception staffing, forwarder and visitor registration, oversight of loading docks and outdoor storage
• Offshore supply bases and shipyards: access control for crew and contractors, oversight of equipment storage and coordination with yard and project management
• Ferry and cruise support: passenger and visitor flows on the landside, support at pre-boarding zones and quayside coordination in consultation with the operator
• Industrial sites along the quay: gate and reception staffing, CCTV monitoring, mobile surveillance and 24/7 alarm response for tank, chemical and production locations

Your PFSO role, the drafting and certification of your ISPS security plan, harbour master duties, the authority of Customs and the Seaport Police, ADR-certified transport and towage or vessel services remain with your own organisation or specialised parties. Everything around them (visible port officers, gate and truck control, mobile surveillance, CCTV monitoring, closing rounds and 24/7 alarm response) is what we deliver on the operational side.

As terminal manager, operations manager or PFSO you want an operational security partner that simply runs your plan and does not improvise around it. At Kilic Security you get one dedicated point of contact from the intake: someone who walks the terminal with you and works through gate posting, CCTV coverage of quay and storage, alignment with your truck check-in and the protocol for gate incidents and unauthorised access. We deliver the security element that fits your internal procedures and the requirements set by your terminal operator, port authority and insurer.

Responsibility for your ISPS security plan, your PFSO role and its certification stays with your own organisation. We are not an ISPS certifying body. Our port officers carry out the posts and procedures that your plan prescribes, report digitally and make sure hand-over to the next shift and to your operations is complete. Multiple terminals under one client? Then we hold one reporting line and one set of procedures across all your locations, with a team lead per terminal and one central point of contact above the operation.