The Denmark-based security advisory and intelligence company Risk Intelligence has acquired the Danish security advisory firm CUSTOS. The acquisition will result in a widening and strengthening of Risk Intelligence expertise for shipowners, offshore, oil and gas as well as ports and terminals, the company said.
“The acquisition is part of our growth strategy and Risk Intelligence will now be one of the very few providers in the global market that is fully capable of advising clients with security challenges within the full spectrum of supply chain management and maritime security” said Hans Tino Hansen, Managing Director & CEO of Risk Intelligence.
The new business area ports and terminals makes Risk Intelligence able to cover all four areas: shipping, offshore, oil and gas, ports and terminals and land.
“The addition of CUSTOS’ vast experience and know how within the ports and terminals security area, combined with the increase of the existing expertise on shipping and offshore, is important for Risk Intelligence to deliver full-spectrum security advice that our clients increasingly demand,” Hansen said.
CUSTOS, which since 2005 has advised a range of industry and maritime clients, will be integrated into Risk Intelligence, and Stefan Nonboe will join the management as Project Director.
“The synergy has been apparent to us from when we started discussing merging our activities. We have had a good and close cooperation for a number of years and Risk Intelligence has provided intelligence to a number of CUSTOS cases,” said CUSTOS Managing Director Henrik Mundt. The response and crisis management activities will be continued in an independent company headed by Henrik Mundt.
“Our close relationship will continue as it is central to us to be able to cooperate on intelligence in connection with our response activities,” said Henrik Mundt.
Risk Intelligence is specialized in security advisory services and intelligence analysis of threats from piracy, organized crime, terrorism, insurgency and military conflicts. Risk Intelligence clients in more than 20 countries operate more than 12% of the world fleet.
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