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Logistics companies seek integrated location tracking solutions

In partnership with Radar

Accurate location tracking is a vital aspect of many industries, perhaps none more so than logistics and transportation. With the costly pitfalls of lost assets or misplaced leases and the prevalence of fraud, theft and location spoofing, 3PLs and carriers are constantly in need of more accurate and more efficient means of tracking and securing equipment and drivers.

Nick Patrick, co-founder and CEO of Radar, first encountered the challenges of location tracking while...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/logistics-companies-seek-integrated-location-tracking-solutions

Cleo announces proactive approach to avoiding SLA violations

The supply chain disruption of 2021 has empowered businesses of all types to more closely enforce service level agreements (SLAs). With capacity tight, manufacturing time limited and warehouse space constrained, any violations of SLAs can be used to get out of current SLAs.

Businesses that rely on SLAs, though, are often unprepared when a violation occurs, unable to gain insight into customer expectations or potential issues until it is too late. Cleo, an ecosystem integration software company...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/cleo-announces-proactive-approach-to-avoiding-sla-violations

What are truckers’ favorite weather apps?

A male and female driver setting up apps inside the cab of their truck.

Trucking companies lose an estimated $2.2 billion to $3.5 billion a year due to weather-related delays, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation, and nearly 12% of those truck delays are caused by weather in the cities with the greatest volumes of truck traffic.

Using a reliable mobile weather app can help truckers stay ahead of the weather, potentially saving their carriers time and money while staying safe on the road. FreightWaves wanted to know which mobile weather apps truckers...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/what-are-truckers-favorite-weather-apps

What is Doppler radar?

Doppler radar dome at the NWS office in Tampa, Florida.

In a nutshell, Doppler radar is a specialized tracking system that uses the Doppler effect (Doppler shift) to determine the location and velocity of storms and precipitation.

Now, let’s crack open that shell and get to the nuts and bolts of how it came to be and how it works.

Doppler vs. conventional radar

Doppler radar has been one of the most important technological advances in hazardous weather prediction over the past 30-plus years. Forecasters using Doppler radar can issue more timely and...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/what-is-doppler-radar

The best weather apps for truckers: Part 2

Tractor-trailers heading down a highway. Inlay photo of a mobile phone showing the NOAA radar app.

It’s crucial for truck drivers to know the forecast for areas along their routes, but a reliable weather app can also provide important real-time information as they approach each storm. In a FreightWaves Twitter survey last month, drivers rated The Weather Channel as their top publicly available weather app (out of four choices). Here’s what they had to say about the next selections: NOAA Weather Radar Live, Storm Shield, Drive Weather and MyRadar.

NOAA Weather Radar Live
Available on iOS and And...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/the-best-weather-apps-for-truckers-part-2

Global Maritime Industry Braces for Regulatory Sanctions

  • OFAC has brought close to 800 actions against maritime vessels.
  • Shipping industry has been thrown into chaos by an unprecedented escalation of sanctions activity.
  • Freight rates soared on the blacklisting of Chinese shipper Cosco for allegedly shipping Iranian crude and gas.
  • The advisory surrounds the use of automatic identification system (AIS) transponders.
  • Curbing ship-to-ship transfer will halt funding to North Korea and Iran.
  • It will launch the registry information sharing compact (RISC).
  • A...

http://mfame.guru/global-maritime-industry-braces-for-regulatory-sanctions/

Practices for safer e-navigation operations

While incidents at sea continue spreading ahead, a primary cause is the failure to check properly the operation of electronic navigational aid(s), Skuld Club reported. In order to avoid such accidents, the bridge team must be fully aware of the operating principals and each equipment in use and verify the factors that may impact the accuracy of the information displayed.

Skuld Club highlighted the best practices that bridge team needs to follow, when operating radars.

Since the failure of the...

https://safety4sea.com/practices-for-safer-e-navigation-operations/

Book of the month: A comprehensive manual to safe navigation

Navigating may be a challenging task on a sunny day, but what happens when mariners must guide their boat through the darkest night or the thickest fog? Either way, radar is a must-have tool for safe navigation but a complex task if you don’t know how to use it.

An educational book entitled ‘Radar for Mariners’ comes to serve every mariner operating either powerboats or sailboats on the proper use of radar, the most valuable electronic navigation tool showing not only where you are, but who else...

https://safety4sea.com/cm-book-of-the-month-a-comprehensive-manual-to-safe-navigation/

FURUNO Presents New Solid-State & IMO-Compliant Magnetron-Free X-Band Radar/Chart Radar

radar on ship's bridge

FURUNO presents its NEW 800W IMO Solid-State device X-band Radar/Chart Radar, and is able to offer, for the first time, a complete Magnetron-free Radar/Chart Radar Solution in both X-band and S-band with the addition of X-band models to the FAR-2xx8/3xx0 NXT Series (from next summer 2020).

No magnetron means less power consumption and no consumable part while maintaining the same level of performance thanks to deep know-how in Solid-State technologies. In other words, Solid-State NXT Radars are...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/furuno-presents-new-solid-state-imo-compliant-magnetron-free-x-band-radar-chart-radar/

Port of Dover to use radar tracking and display technology

Cambridge Pixel, a developer of radar display, tracking and recording sub-systems, provided its radar video trackers and display technology to Marico Marine, under an investment by the Port of Dover into safety systems at Europe’s busiest ferry port.

Engineers at Marico Marine asked for a software-based radar tracker to be integrated with its new vessel traffic service (VTS) system in Dover.

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The software also had to be highly configurable, in order to support...

https://safety4sea.com/port-of-dover-to-use-radar-tracking-and-display-technology/

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