Thermo King’s TracKing is a web-based solution that provides users with temperature and location information on their refrigerated fleets.

INEGMA will be hosting the Border Control, Airport and Seaport Security conference in Dubai.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano outlines her department's ongoing aviation security initiatives at the Air Line Pilots Association International Awards Dinner.

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority awards Smiths Detection an additional five-year contract to upgrade and maintain its PROTECT and FirstView anti-terrorism detection and software systems.

Rapiscan is awarded $12 millions' worth of Exploratory Research Program contracts by the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office.

GAC Group buys the Finnish ship agent, John Nurminen Navis.

Morpho Detection installs explosives detection systems at Indira Ghandi International Airport.

One of the six Somali men charged with committing 'piracy related acts' during an attack on a US Navy vessel on 10 April pleads guilty.

Surveillance system provider Avigilon appoints Nicolas Cronier as sales director for France, Belgium and Luxembourg.

Merchant Maritime Warfare Centre will be demonstrating its Propeller Arrester system in an anti-piracy exercise taking place in Southampton later this month.

TrakLok and Telesensors merge to form a 'single, unified entity' that brings together integrated wireless and security technologies.

The US Coast Guard issues a marine safety alert to AIS users in US waters between lower Connecticut and North Carolina.

The European Commission is investigating to see whether provisions in the agreements between the P&I Clubs within the International Group of P&I Clubs may lessen competition and raise antitrust issues.

Federal Government tightens security at airports, sea ports and land entry points, in preparation for next year's elections.

Former French culture secretary Jack Lang is appointed to be the UN’s special advisor on piracy.

The Port of Valparaiso will be able to handle post-Panamax ships in 2014, when its new $350 million terminal opens for business.

INTERTANKO’s Council will be invited at its October meeting to appoint Joe Angelo as the association's new Managing Director.

EU invites tenders for a study looking at the impact of extending EU security measures to vessels currently outside the scope of SOLAS Chapter X1/2 and the ISPS Code.

Biometrics R&D company M2SYS Technology enters into strategic partnership with Boriana Ltd to accelerate the adoption of biometric technology in Bulgaria and throughout Eastern Europe.

Rapiscan Systems has been awarded a $5 million contract to provide an Eagle Rail Inspection Scanner and associated construction and civil works to an Eastern European customer.

FreightWatch upgrades its Mexico City Command and Control Centre.

PAC International Logistics selects CargoSmart’s private label solution for 24/7 shipment visibility.

New partnership will combine OnAsset's Vision Platform and the Sentry FlightSafe product line with RACO’s package tracking applications.

Brazil’s special ports department (SEP) is looking to launch tenders for the concessions of two new ports by the end of 2010.

Astrata claims it is the first telematics company to have its tracking solution achieve TAPA TSR Level 1 compliance.