Cargo crime ingress prevention
Trust keeps freight moving. Criminals exploit it.
Portcullis helps freight businesses protect their people, check who they're dealing with and prove they have the right controls in place.
Initial Exposure Check takes around 5 minutes.
Membership
Why freight businesses join Portcullis
Everything you need to be more crime-aware — in one place.
Check who you're dealing with
CLUES gives your team a repeatable way to assess new customers, agents and partners.
Train your people
Give staff practical awareness of bribery, coercion, impersonation and suspicious approaches.
Planned
Know what's changing
Receive relevant threat intelligence and member alerts.
In development
Get help when something feels wrong
Access Portcullis guidance and clear routes to report concerns.
Prove your controls
Achieve Portcullis Certification and demonstrate your approach to customers and procurement teams.
The risk
How criminals get in
People
Bribery, coercion and insider compromise.
Relationships
False agents, suspicious customers and manipulated counterparties.
Communications
Cloned domains, false identities and changed instructions.
Portcullis puts practical controls around all three.
Understand the RiskCLUES
Spot what doesn't add up before you commit.
CLUES gives freight teams a repeatable way to check new counterparties and identify anomalies before accepting business.
CLUES check
Illustrative example — not a real company or assessment.
Counterparty
ABC Global Logistics
Result
3 items require verification
- Email: Email domain mismatchVerify
- Contact: Contact not independently verifiedVerify
- Shipper / Shipment: Urgent credit requestedVerify
- Location: Registered address confirmedChecked
- URL: Website consistent with company recordsChecked
How Portcullis works
From exposure to certification
Portcullis Certification demonstrates that your organisation has been assessed against defined controls.
- 1
Check
Understand your exposure.
- 2
Join
Access Portcullis tools and support.
- 3
Improve
Put the required controls in place.
- 4
Assess
Provide evidence against the Standard.
- 5
Certify
Achieve Portcullis Certification.
- 6
Maintain
Keep training, controls and intelligence current.
The Standard
Nine control areas that Portcullis Certified organisations must demonstrate and maintain.
Explore the StandardPricing
Membership from £495 a year and certification from £350, set by company size.
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