Airside cargo security · MIA / ATL · Since 2003
Airside security and chain-of-custody oversight. Licensed, credentialed and trusted by industry leaders.
01 · Services
Six services. Every job we run is one of them.
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Florida Class G licensed agents for secured areas, cages and perimeter coverage.
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Agent at the aircraft at block-in and before departure; cargo is never unattended on the ramp.
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Planeside-to-warehouse and warehouse-to-aircraft escort of high-value cargo, the agent with the shipment at every step.
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Timestamped logs, signatures and photos at every transfer point, usable for insurance and compliance.
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Eyes on the pallet while it is built, netted and tagged, so what was tendered is what flies.
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Observation and dual-signature documentation of vault placement and release.
02 · For airlines
KAPP writes station-specific SOPs for airlines, trains the people who run them, aligns the records with your auditors, and can staff the program at Miami and Atlanta.
03 · Why non-custodial matters
KAPP does not sign for, carry or store cargo. Custody stays with you; the record stays independent.
A record with no interest of its own to protect is the one insurers, auditors and customs accept.
04 · For shippers
KAPP does not carry, book or broker cargo. After twenty-three years on the ramp, we know which armored carrier, forwarder or airline is right for a given cargo and lane, and we make the introduction.
Tell us what moves, where, and how often. We reply within one business day with an introduction to a partner that fits.
The introduction costs you nothing. Your agreement is with the partner who carries the cargo.
KAPP stays on the shipment as the independent security provider on the airside, where you want us.
05 · Case study
A currency movement for a global armored carrier. Miami, June 2024. Recounted from the escort’s incident report.
Four cans leave the airline warehouse for the aircraft on an airline tug. The KAPP escort asks whether the can openings will be sealed; the answer is no. He follows.
On a turn near the gates a bag falls from a can. The tug driver does not see it and continues. The escort stops, signals, and is not seen.
The bag has been run over and torn; currency is loose on the roadway. The escort recovers the bag and what is around it onto his vehicle. Too much for one person; he calls dispatch.
KAPP dispatch notifies the client and the airline. A second bag is found to have fallen. Airport authority, police and ramp crew begin recovering currency across several gates.
The cans have been parked at the departure gate without the required hand-over signature. The client’s truck is on the ramp; recovered currency is consolidated into it.
The escort returns with the tug driver to the gate, retrieves the four cans and brings them back to the warehouse for the client. Written report filed the same morning.
What the escort changed
The loss was seen at the moment it happened, not at the gate when the cans were counted. One bag and its contents were back in the client’s hands within minutes; recovery of the rest began before the aircraft door closed.
What the record changed
A timed account of who moved what, where, and who was asked about seals beforehand. The client’s claim rested on it. Without an independent witness there is no timeline, only a shortfall.
06 · The record
When something is too valuable to leave alone on a ramp, someone from KAPP is there: planeside when it lands, at the cage while it waits, on the pallet when it is built, at the aircraft door when it leaves. This is what that has added up to.
Fine art & museum logistics
4,300+ shipments · MIA · ATL
A museum loan is planned for months. The two hours between the climate-controlled truck and the aircraft hold are ours. Each December, fair week lands in waves; we staff the waves, and in January do it in reverse. Our longest fine-art relationship dates to 2004.
Armored carriers · currency · bullion
18,000+ transfers · MIA · ATL
Crews cannot always follow a shipment onto the ramp. KAPP holds the credentials to do it, and has for the largest carriers in the world for over twenty years. Acceptance, screening, build-up, hold: timed and signed, uplift report filed before the crew is back at the depot.
Precious metals · jewelry · instruments
5,300+ shipments · MIA · ATL
Dealers, brokers and jewelry houses need a witness who works for them, not for the airline or the forwarder. Pieces in, pieces on the pallet, pieces at the door. If the count changes, nothing moves until it is reconciled. That report is what the insurer sees.
Airlines
21,500+ flights · MIA · ATL
European flag carriers contract KAPP directly to attend valuable-cargo flights: aircraft to strong room and back, with the report the station manager needs for the carrier’s own audit. One rotation, nearly every flight, for twenty years. Our largest sector by volume.
SOP development for airlinesCorporate & defense
5,000+ movements · MIA · ATL
Our first client, in May 2003, moved high-tech exports. The semiconductor and defense work that followed is where the escort discipline was built. It continues today under purchase orders renewed for more than a decade with a major aerospace and defense contractor.
Counted from invoiced service records, May 2003 – September 2026. Client names and shipment details are not published. References under NDA.
07 · Stations
Coverage 24 hours a day, every day, at both airports. One dispatch line.
Miami International Airport
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International
08 · Contact
One agreement, then book on demand against your flight windows. Reply within one business day.