"Reducing the number of personnel doing security work and most certainly reduce the necessary qualifications for security personnel because all of these things which cost money will be their goals. Cut down the overhead costs will be a continual rant of the CFO's and lower executive managers. Let's increase annual bonuses by cutting overhead costs 10%. On and on."
Dude! They will have no say in security. Security, such as it is, will remain the same.
You do not know squat about port security. Federal and state monies are given to the port authroity to conduct security. Most of what they have to do is mandated by law, but anything extra that is not mandated will only occur if the company decides they have the money to do it.
The company will know everything that enters or leaves thru the port. The company will also know the schedule of when security is at its highest, when it is at its lowest, when trackers are down for maintenence, when the CONEX box scanners are down for maintenence. We only check 5% of the CONEX boxes as it is.
That is more info than I want any foreign nation to know about a port that ships our military supplies thru it.