Defence and government
Port calls, fuel, air movements, land transport and base support for navies, defence ministries and government agencies.
Government logistics is bought under a framework, delivered under scrutiny and settled under audit. The operational requirement is usually the straightforward part. What takes the time is the customs regime, the permission that has not come back, and the supplier who wants payment before a public body is able to release it.
We take that work off the desk of the officer running the deployment. One coordinator carries the operation across ports, borders and service lines, and produces an account that survives inspection afterwards.
What this means in practice
- One counterparty, whatever the country
- The contract is with us. Pilots, hauliers, handling agents and fuel suppliers are engaged in our name, screened before use, and paid on their own terms rather than on the appropriation cycle.
- Written before it is needed
- Permissions, customs regimes and waste reception arrangements are confirmed in writing before the movement is committed. A verbal assurance from a port does not survive a change of duty officer.
- An account that can be audited
- Every disbursement is traceable to a delivery note, a receipt or a certificate. Consolidated invoicing does not mean an opaque total.
- Refusals are reported, not absorbed
- Where a port or an agent expects a payment we will not make, the client is told. Quiet accommodation is how a compliance problem becomes the client's problem later.
Capabilities used most in this sector
- Naval and port support Port calls for warships and state vessels, held as a single file
- Fuel and energy supply Marine, aviation and ground fuel, supplied against a stated specification
- Aviation and air logistics Air movements, ground handling and the permissions that allow them
- Land transport and base support Road, rail and multimodal movement, and running the site at the far end
- Reverse logistics and retrograde Bringing equipment home, and deciding what should not come home
Across every area
What comes with the work, whatever the operation is
These are not a separate service line and they are not charged as one.
- One point of contact
- A named coordinator holds the file across ports, countries and service lines, and does not hand it on halfway through.
- Screening and counterparty checks
- Suppliers and subcontractors are checked against sanctions lists before use, and their ownership is rechecked when it changes.
- Anti-bribery applied outward
- The policy binds our suppliers as well as us. Where a payment is expected that we will not make, the client hears about it.
- Tenders and framework agreements
- Support to tender submissions, and management of the framework once it is in place, including its reporting obligations.
- Cost control and consolidated billing
- Costs broken down by port call, mission or deployment. One invoice, with every underlying document available behind it.
- Insurance and risk
- Insurance coordination including war risk, and risk assessment for personnel movements into difficult jurisdictions.
Tell us what the operation needs, not what you think we sell
Ports, airfields, dates, volumes. Whatever is fixed so far is enough to start from.