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Metal Innovations Inc. Receives STC Approval for Its Cessna 208 and 208B Caravan Supplemental Inspection Reset Program
Metal Innovations Inc. is proud to announce that they have received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Supplemental Type Certification (STC) #ST02549SE for its Cessna 208 and 208B Caravan Reset Program. The new Cessna 208 Special Inspection Document (SID) Reset program provides operators a cost-effective solution to mitigate costly downtime brought on by the substantial inspection schedule associated with aging aircraft concerns. - July 27, 2017 - Metal Innovations Inc.
NEXT Future Transportation Inc. Achieves Major Milestone – Exhibits Fully Autonomous Modular Vehicle Prototype
"NEXT," a startup that is commercializing an autonomous mass-transportation and goods-movement solution, today announced that it has reached an important milestone in its vehicle prototype development. NEXT has made important progress over the past 18 months in developing its patented innovation that is s based on swarms of modular self-driving vehicles, which can join and detach with other modules in full motion, allowing passengers to stand and walk from one module to another. - July 27, 2017 - NEXT Future Transportation inc.
Marketforce to Host The Future of Air Transport on 14th & 15th November in London
The future passenger, Brexit, terror threats, capacity and state aid have all hit the headlines in recent months. Questions are being asked over their effects on strategies at the highest level across aviation. - July 22, 2017 - Marketforce
Transfinder Releases Routefinder GO Mobile App
Transfinder Corp. announced the release of its latest product, Routefinder GO, an app specifically developed and designed for smartphones and tablets. - July 20, 2017 - Transfinder
Weather Risk Mapping Promotes Resilience to Adverse Weather
Weather Risk Mapping, LLC announces the availability of its web-based platform to quantify, monitor and forecast operational weather risk for weather-sensitive businesses. - July 19, 2017 - Weather Risk Mapping, LLC
ACI Last Mile Network Announces Acquisition of CIPS Marketing Group
Last Mile Delivery Solution Expands Geographic Footprint - July 18, 2017 - ACI Last Mile Network
CSCMP Jacksonville Roundtable 2017-2018 Board of Directors Announced
CSCMP is pleased to announce the official 2017-2018 Board of Directors for the Jacksonville Roundtable. - July 18, 2017 - Total Distribution, Inc.
DIY DPF Cleaning – New Biodegradable Carbon Cleaning Solution - ECOFuelMax
Dirty Diesel Particulate Filters (DPF’s) have been a problem for Diesel Owners since 2007. Now they can be cleaned without damaging them with high heat (+/- 1,800⁰). - July 18, 2017 - ECO Fuel Systems, LLC
Hayleys Advantis Strengthens End-to-End Logistics Solutions in the Maldives with New Acquisition
Hayleys Advantis has further solidified its position in the Maldives with the addition of two new landing craft that will further expand the range of services offered by their subsidiary, Total Transport Solutions Maldives (Pvt) Limited (TTS). These landing craft will allow TTS to actively... - July 17, 2017 - Advantis
Clarence Akagu from Lagos, Nigeria Competes to Win SpaceX Hyperloop Competition with rLoop
Clarence Akagu from Lagos, Nigeria, is a finalist in the SpaceX Hyperloop competition. SpaceX is the world’s largest commercial space corporation and they created the competition to stimulate the creation of Hyperloop technology. Clarence Akagu is a member of rLoop, the world’s first crowdsourced engineering team and the only non-university finalist in the competition. - July 17, 2017 - rLoop Inc
Presidential Moving Celebrate Their 20th Anniversary
Presidential Moving Continues to Expand Across the US. - July 10, 2017 - Presidential Moving
Zyleck Launches Lymousine, a New Ride Scheduling Platform That Brings Driver Utilization Optimization to the Ride Sharing and Last Mile Package Delivery Business Models
Zyleck Technologies, Inc. (Zyleck), an Atlanta, Georgia-based Transport Network Company (TNC), announced today the Beta launch of Lymousine, its ride scheduling and last mile package delivery platform that is underpinned by a Doctoral thesis and patent pending technology. Built on Microsoft Azure, the Lymousine platform enables as much as a 30% improvement in driver utilization rates to make ride sharing and last mile package delivery more efficient, cost effective, and predictive. - July 10, 2017 - Zyleck
Badger Truck Center Celebrates Being Region’s Top Dealer for Medium Duty, Super Duty and Overall Commercial Sales at Summerfest
Badger Truck Center, a family owned commercial truck dealership, celebrated being the Top Dealer for Medium Duty, Super Duty and Commercial Truck Sales at the world’s largest music festival. Badger Truck Center specializes in the sale of commercial trucks throughout southeastern Wisconsin. - July 06, 2017 - Badger Truck Center
Implementation Engineers Tames Manufacturing Bottlenecks with Its enCompass® Methodology
Chicago – Implementation Engineers, a firm that been around for more than 50 years, announces a series of new blogs filled with information, tips, and interesting bits to help educate executives and the public about its offerings. - July 05, 2017 - Implementation Engineers
Extreme Trailer, LLC Introduces X-Lite™ Flatbed Trailer Industry-Best Tare Weight with Crush Resistant Technology
Extreme Trailers, LLC introduces industry game-changing best Tare Weight flatbed trailers that increase profitability for drivers, fleet owners and trucking companies. - July 02, 2017 - Extreme Trailers
AIRON Logistics, Turkey Joins ACEX Alliance
AIRON Logistics is an affiliated company of Başak Logistics Group basing in Istanbul. - July 02, 2017 - ACEX
Preactive IT Solutions Protecting Houston Businesses from "Petya" Ransomware Attack
The "Petya" virus is crippling computer networks in Europe and in The United States. Hospitals, Food Distributors and other companies here in the U.S. have been effected and all these attacks are easily prevented. - June 28, 2017 - Preactive IT Solutions
PINC Named to Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s SDCE 100 Top Supply Chain Projects for 2017
PINC awarded for driving bottom-line value to its customers. - June 28, 2017 - PINC
Fluoroloy A90 Polymer Material & Rotary Lip Seal Testing Program Being Showcased at Paris Air Show
Saint-Gobain Seals will be exhibiting at the Paris Air Show in June, one of several strategic business units participating in this aerospace event. - June 28, 2017 - Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, Seals Group
Aerospace Design Firm FlexSys Teams with Heavy Truck Aero Maker Ridge Corp.
FlexSys, Inc, known for shape morphing wings on aircraft, has teamed with maker of truck aero products Ridge Corp to improve fuel efficiency of heavy trucks. - June 24, 2017 - FlexSys, Inc.
World's Fastest Porsche 962 Race Car Driven by Legendary Driver Derek Bell to Display at Festivals of Speed
Universally acknowledged as the world’s fastest Porsche 962 in the era, 1988/89 Porsche 962 Chassis number: 962-108 CO2 Miller High Life & B.F Goodrich car is a car of iconic status. This historic race car along with other examples will be displayed at the Hallandale, Orlando and Amelia Island Festivals of Speed events during the 2017-2018 season. - June 23, 2017 - Festivals of Speed
Electra Meccanica Delivers First Solo Vehicle
Electra Meccanica Vehicles Corporation delivered the first 2017 SOLO all-electric vehicle to proud new owners Leona and Matthew Green of New Westminster, British Columbia. The Greens plan to use their innovative and unique new SOLO for both daily commuting and for their successful local restaurant... - June 22, 2017 - Electra Meccanica Vehicles Corporation
NAFA Unveils Redesigned Website
A New Clean Design and Simplified Navigation Improves Overall Experience. - June 20, 2017 - NAFA Fleet Management Association
A-Z Bus Sales Announces the Hiring of Brandon Bluhm: Director of New School Bus Sales
A-Z Bus hires new Director of New School Bus Sales to fully run and plan the departments strategic and sales executions for their core bus brands, Blue Bird, Micro Bird, and Collins Bus. - June 20, 2017 - A-Z Bus Sales
LogicJunction and IndoorAtlas Partner to Change the Landscape of Location-Based Services in Healthcare Using Geomagnetic Indoor Positioning
LogicJunction, a pioneer in location-based services for healthcare, and IndoorAtlas, a global innovator of geomagnetic indoor positioning technology, team up to create enhanced patient experience associated with navigation inside of large, complex hospital buildings using a state of the art mobile... - June 20, 2017 - LogicJunction
Trust Stamp Selected as a 2017 Atlanta Metro Export Challenge Semi-Finalist
Atlanta Tech Village-based startup has been named a semi-finalist in the annual Atlanta Metro Export Challenge (Atlanta MEC) and a recipient of a $5,000 grant. This grant competition supported by JPMorgan Chase, UPS, and Partnership Gwinnett, advances the development and execution of cutting-edge export strategies for small and medium-sized businesses. - June 16, 2017 - Trust Stamp
DISA Global Solutions Acquires Midwest Toxicology Services
DISA Global Solutions increases the company's market share and presence in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions through the strategic acquisition of Midwest Toxicology Services. - June 10, 2017 - DISA Global Solutions, Inc.
Kontron and SQLstream Introduce Joint ITS Solution in 6.29 Webinar for Transportation Operators
Kontron and SQLstream join Eurotransport Magazine on June 29th at 8AM PST for a live webinar discussing real-time IoT solutions for transportation Operators. - June 08, 2017 - Sqlstream, Inc
ShipSecure Mitigating the Maritime Cyber Threat
Today World-Link Communications announced the availability of its ShipSecure suite of cyber defense services. ShipSecure is the first comprehensive cyber security service offered to the shipping community. ShipSecure suite provides services that mitigate the cyber threat against vessels by delivering real time threat assessment and defense over the satellite data stream. - June 06, 2017 - World-Link Communications, Inc
New Business Case Study: Automotive Emergency Shipments, How to Keep the Costs Down by Air Time Critical
Air Time Critical announces its new business case study: "Emergency Air Freight Romania to England: Keeping Costs Down." In this series of logistics business cases, Air Time Critical - European freight forwarder specialising in emergency logistics for the automotive industry - offers an... - June 06, 2017 - Air Time Critical
Aztec Exchange Launches PayMe in Canada with EDI Gateway
Aztec Exchange, a global supplier of invoice finance products and services, and Canadian EDI provider EDI Gateway today announced a partnership to deliver Aztec’s breakthrough early e-invoice payment service PayMe (payme.cloud) to EDI Gateway’s (edigateway.com) Canadian supplier and corporate clients. - June 06, 2017 - EDI Gateway
OpenJaw Technologies Announce Four New Chinese Airline Customers
OpenJaw’s international reach continues in 2017 with four new customers signed in Asia. Shenzhen Airlines have over 172 aircraft, flying 25m passengers a year to 74 destinations across Asia, and have selected OpenJaw’s t-Retail platform. "Shenzhen’s strategy is to roll out a... - May 31, 2017 - OpenJaw Technologies
ShipTrack® Demonstrates Secure Chain of Custody Logistics at CANSEC 2017
ShipTrack®, a product of PiiComm Inc., is an innovative logistics platform that enables organizations to securely gain complete visibility and control of any shipment’s movement worldwide. ShipTrack is proud to announce its sponsorship and participation in CANSEC 2017, Canada’s... - May 30, 2017 - PiiComm Inc.
OSHA Hazard Alert Reports Preventable Incidents That CertifyMeOnline.com Aims to Address
In the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s latest Hazard Alert, a report of recommendations and descriptions of mandatory safety and health standards, it was reported that in a one-year period 10 preventable fatalities and more than 20 preventable injuries due to aerial lifts were... - May 30, 2017 - Certify Me Online
Netwell LLC Announces New Flight Tracker App for iPhone and Android to Check Flight Status in Real Time
Netwell LLC announces launch of its New Real time Flight Tracker App for Apple iPhone and Google Android based phones to check Real Time Airport status, Delays, Airline Info, Flight Status, Maps, Schedule, Flight Tracker Live, Real time Flight Map. - May 27, 2017 - Netwell LLC
Windy City Limousine and Bus Wins Industry Award
Illinois Meetings and Events Magazine presented Windy City Limousine and Bus with the Best of Transportation award. - May 24, 2017 - Windy City Limousine and Bus
Seginus Inc PMA Parts Company is Proud to Announce New Product Release: Windshield Wiper Components
This assembly is part of the Aircraft Windshield Wiper Motor Converter Assembly. This assembly is installed on various Boeing, Saab AB, Saab Aeronautics and Sikorsky Series aircraft. - May 23, 2017 - Seginus Aerospace LLC
American PetroLog Adds Another Military Veteran
West Point graduate and combat veteran Chris Clark joins American PetroLog team. - May 23, 2017 - American PetroLog
Ramapo Central School District Names Chestnut Ridge Transportation Bus Driver Dunia Burns a "Mountie Superstar"
Mountie Superstar initiative is to recognize outstanding individuals. Dunia Burns helps the children feel safe and secure as they begin and end their day on the school bus. - May 23, 2017 - The Trans Group
American PetroLog Opens BNSF Transload Terminal in TX
American PetroLog has opened a full service BNSF terminal with bulk liquid, dry bulk and carload transloading and storage capabilities. - May 22, 2017 - American PetroLog
Best-in-Class Parking Enforcement Through ParkiFi Partnership
Parking Revenue Recovery Services is excited to announce their partnership with ParkiFi. - May 19, 2017 - Parking Revenue Recovery Services, Inc.
Protect Yourself for Free: Local Law Firm Launches “Insurance Detective” Program
Green Law Firm announces initiative to uncover hidden mysteries in your insurance policy. - May 17, 2017 - Green Law Firm
Madison Street Capital Names Head of International Advisory Group
Madison Street Capital is pleased to announce that Joseph Alioto has joined the firm as Managing Director and will head the International Advisory Group (IAG). In this role, Mr. Alioto will work on the execution of Madison Street Capital’s global strategy, deepen client relationships and... - May 17, 2017 - Madison Street Capital
Bringing a New Approach to the UAE Parking Industry
This specialised conference will focus on the design, optimisation, and management of car parks and parking facilities in the UAE. - May 13, 2017 - Advanced Conferences & Meetings
SleepSafe Drivers® Executive Earns His Certified Transportation Professional (CTP) Designation from the National Private Truck Council
This past Sunday, Steven Garrish was recognized for earning the designation of CTP at the 2017 CTP Awards Ceremony held at the National Private Truck Council’s Annual Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio. Steven Garrish, SVP of Safety and Regulatory Compliance at SleepSafe Drivers, one of the... - May 06, 2017 - SleepSafe Drivers, Inc.
Wendy J. Buckley Honored as a Lifetime Member by Strathmore's Who's Who Worldwide Publication
Wendy J. Buckley of Elkton, Maryland has been honored as a Lifetime Member by Strathmore’s Who’s Who Worldwide Edition for her outstanding contributions and achievements in the field of transportation. About Wendy J. Buckley Ms. Buckley is the President and Founder of Specialty... - May 03, 2017 - Strathmore Worldwide
Traffic Anomalies No Longer a Mystery in Denmark Thanks to Drivers Bluetooth Devices
Thanks to years of collecting traffic data, based on the movement of driver's mobile devices, Aarhus municipality in Denmark can now see the effects in road traffic of construction projects, roadwork, traffic accidents and faulty traffic lights. - May 03, 2017 - Veovo
IONX LLC and Havellandsiche Eisenbahn (HVLE) Testing Standards–Based Wireless Intra-Train Communication System
IONX LLC, an Amsted Rail Company, and Germany-based rail freight operator Havelländische Eisenbahn (HVLE) initiated field trials in 2016, testing its standards-based wireless intra-train communication system in freight rail revenue service. This platform marks IONX’s first European... - May 03, 2017 - Amsted Rail
Sensors Take Flight at Birmingham Airport to Improve Passenger Experience & Planning
Birmingham Airport joins UK Airports Bristol, Edinburgh and Manchester by implementing BlipTrack queue management technology from BLIP Systems. The sensor-based solution helps the airport to improve resource planning and to ease travelers minds with accurate line wait times. - May 03, 2017 - Veovo
New Zealand Air Show Traffic Flow Crisis Averted with BlipTrack Technology
Following the disastrous traffic congestion caused by unexpectedly high spectator numbers at the 2012 Royal New Zealand Air Force Air Show, organizers of the 2017 event knew they needed to avoid a repeat performance. Fortunately, BlipTrack technology was available to assist, ensuring far smooth traffic flow. - May 03, 2017 - Veovo