For Immediate Release
June 17, 2009

Saving US Taxpayers Money Stimulates a Joint Venture Between
The Sandi Group and Safe Ports

The Sandi Group and Safe Ports are experts in working in emerging markets. Their Chairmen and CEOS, Dr. Rubar Sandi and Ms. Lucy Duncan have known each other for nearly twenty years. Independently they have overcome daunting challenges to deliver large scale projects successfully.

Safe Ports and TSG have been inspired by the US military’s renewed focus to streamline costs through more joint planning, coordination, integration and synchronization of logistics across all branches: the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. They decided to join forces and recently established a Joint Venture called Safe Ports TSG in order to work to find innovative new ways to support the war fighter’s logistics needs.

The Sandi Group is a multi-disciplined, international company with operating entities around the world. TSG and its subsidiaries are global contractors providing security planning, management, training and personnel to large scale, complex projects. TSG has been engaged in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003 supporting US operations.

Safe Ports, a Woman owned Small Business, based in Charleston, SC, is engaged in senior level US and international government relations, risk assessment and security planning, defense logistics, including warehouse management, military specification packaging, transportation, equipment resets, and technology. Safe Ports also specializes in sophisticated port security and intermodal port development.

“Security risks in the Strait of Hormuz and piracy near the Gulf of Aden are complicating the military’s repositioning of equipment out of Iraq. Supporting our soldiers and contractors in land-locked Afghanistan will be difficult, long and costly,” stated Lucy Duncan. “We are building new capacity in the region and leveraging in-country assets in order to wring out costs. Historically, things moved slowly through layers of unnecessary management; now the demands are extraordinary and money is tight. We are finding smaller, leaner companies managing in-country assets with tight security stretches precious US tax payer dollars much further. We have the know-how, capabilities and experience to create new 21st century solutions to drive costs down,” she said.

Dr. Sandi is a well know international business leader. The US State Department asked him to join the Future of Iraq group for the post-Saddam reconstruction efforts in Iraq; he is credited with authorship of the Phoenix Plan which is a comprehensive economic development, social and political blueprint for Iraq. He has written many papers relating to security, logistics, economic development, fiscal reform and financial institutional policy for the future of Iraq.

Dr. Sandi stated, “We are delighted with this joint venture, as Americans we are compelled to support our troops and contractors, while doing whatever we can to drive costs down. Our target is to eradiate wasteful costs; this is the mantra of our new JV with Safe Ports.”

The Joint Venture is headquartered in Washington, DC with operations offices in Charleston, South Carolina and Amman, Jordan.

Safe Ports-TSG, 2215 M Street, NW, Washington, DC. 20037

For more information please contact:

Jamie Damsker
Safe Ports/TSG
Corporate Communications
843 723 9055

Karen Mollard
Safe Ports/TSG
Corporate Communications
202 331 9320

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