Borders & Security Services

  

As the global marketplace continues to grow, millions of international travelers and tons of freight are exposed to various types of border-related services, including customs, immigration and screening processes. Bringing a competitive edge to borders and security requires experience and expertise.

InterVISTAS has developed a focused set of services to advise clients on border/security management:

  • Planning and design of facilitation-related terminal projects at airports;
  • Definition of secure cruise transfers procedures;
  • Measurement of processing characteristics and facility standards;
  • Identification of best practices for international passenger processing;
  • Formulation and development of efficiencies in international passenger facilitation to improve output;
  • Forecasting future space requirements for facilitation flows; and
  • Creating synergies with related stakeholders to improve flows between various modes of transportation

InterVISTAS assists facility operators and government agencies managing change.


Services

Border Flow Optimization

From staffing model studies to flow modeling and survey teams, InterVISTAS delivers solid results to ensure that process throughput can demonstrably be improved, while maintaining the high level of security necessary to meet regulated standards.

Strategic Advocacy Planning

As each international facility has a different layout and dynamic, customized assessments of passenger and cargo terminals have proved invaluable to delivering results. InterVISTAS has developed a strong knowledge-base of best practices throughout Asia, Europe and North America.

Planning & Design

InterVISTAS planning professionals have delivered planning and development projects for all sizes of facilities ranging from checkpoint layout planning to comprehensive long-term development programs for airports. The firm also shaped the planning parameters for design guidelines of new security/border facilities.

Process Innovations

InterVISTAS is a leader in the field of integrated policy and commercial analysis, developing some of the most innovative passenger processing solutions.

Security Auditing Services

InterVISTAS performs security audits at airports, seaports, transit and multimodal facilities on behalf of local/regional/national governments, investment groups and development banks.

Legal & Regulatory

Our team has assisted governments throughout the world in the development, drafting, review and promulgation of transportation legislation, regulations, and policies.

Reference Projects

InterVISTAS has recently achieved several notable successes in border and passenger facilitation.

CAA Infrastructure and Development
InterVISTAS has worked with more than 100 Civil Aviation Authorities on nearly every continent, help-ing to develop their management infrastructure and technical inspection capabilities, reconfigure agency funding mechanisms and implement technological solutions for oversight and enforcement functions.

Automated Borders
InterVISTAS developed a business case for a major change in border automation designed to produce a 40% increase in productivity while managing risks with new technologies.

Quick Connect
InterVISTAS Consulting provided key support for our airport to work with Customs and Border Protec-tion to remove baggage recheck requirements. Our "US Quick Connect" process has resulted in greatly facilitated passenger connections”, says Reg MilleyPresident & CEO, Edmonton Airports Board Member, ACI-NA.

Preclearance at Shannon Airport, Ireland
InterVISTAS supported Shannon Airport (Ireland) to develop a US Preclearance facility to allow pas-sengers departing from Europe to the US to arrive as domestic passengers. With its new competitive advantage the airport can now compete for routes to US airports without customs facilities and offer improved connections and increased convenience to passengers in the North European market.

Economic Impact of Delays
InterVISTAS has performed analyses for governments and associations for the economic value of delays in border/security processing. From value stream mapping to micro economic impact studies, expert analyses have shaped policy decisions on border/security.

US Direct - Cruise Ship Processing
InterVISTAS contribution to the cruiseship processing program between Vancouver Airport and Alaska cruiselines is the template for future expedited off-site check-in involving both Canada and US.

CONTACT

Solomon Wong