DC Velocity - April 2016

16 DC VELOCITY APRIL 2016 www.dcvelocity.com Port San Antonio’s board of directors has selected its newest slate of officers: Dan Weingart, board chair;

Victoria Garcia, vice chair; Glenn Mac Taggart, secretary; and Edward J. Moore, treasurer. … Advance Storage Products, a manufacturer of warehouse racking systems, has welcomed Jeff Howard as vice president of sales. … Interroll Group has named Erwin Teichmann to the newly created position of global head of communications and investor relations. …

C.H. Robinson has appointed Jack Chang and John Chen as vice presidents of Asia global forwarding. … Inttra, an ocean shipping electronic marketplace, has promoted Inna Kuznetsova to president and chief operating officer. … Shay Reid has joined enVista’s supply chain solutions team as a senior director. Reid will lead the life sciences division within enVista’s supply chain solutions practice. … Fortna has hired retail industry expert Mike Perkins to ensure that the company’s large, complex distribution transformation projects are successfully executed. … Mike Bellavance joins Wynright Corp., a division of Daifuku Ltd., as plant manufacturing manager. The company also promoted

Kevin Sosnowski to vice president of automated handling, storage, and selection. … Schneider Packaging Equipment Co. has named former NFL player Bob Brotzki director of sales and marketing. … Kane Is Able Inc.’s president and chief executive officer, Mike Gardner, was named a board member of the American Logistics Aid Network, an organization that supports disaster relief efforts through supply chain coordination. … Swisslog Warehouse and Distribution Solutions,

an automated intralogistics systems provider, has appointed Roberto Laguna sales director of its Mexico office. … Transportation, logistics, and intermodal services provider Schneider has promoted

Tom DiSalvi to vice president of safety and loss prevention. … Forte, a Swisslog company, has added Mark Owen as director of systems engineering, Andrew Castelli as electrical controls engineer, and Brooke Lanning as business development manager. …

Associated has selected Joe Vittori as corporate director of finance, a newly created position. … Andrew Barnes has joined Crane Worldwide Logistics in the United Kingdom to serve as U.K. sales director.

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Smartphone pioneer BlackBerry Ltd. has launched a bud-get-priced asset-tracking system for trucking companies and private fleet operators.

Customers who use BlackBerry Radar can optimize utilization of their trailers and shipping containers, improve on-time delivery, reduce theft, and generate more revenue from each trailer, according to the Waterloo, Ontario-based company, which was formerly known as Research in Motion Ltd.

The system is currently being tested. The final product will hit the market this summer. BlackBerry Radar will enter a crowded field with plenty of options, but the company says its product can achieve the same results as existing platforms without requiring users to invest in expensive IT infrastructure. The company has not announced its pricing.

The BlackBerry Radar product suite includes a self-pow-
ered tracking device, data security, visual reports, and an
Internet of Things (Io T) platform with cloud-based appli-
cations. That design allows managers, load planners, and
dispatchers to read the results on any smartphone, tablet,
or computer with a Web browser.

The tracking device can monitor GPS location, temperature, humidity, and the presence of cargo. That means users can track highly mobile assets, reduce thefts, and maximize asset utilization without running up operational costs, Blackberry said.

Sample applications include sending real-time alerts when a trailer crosses a user-defined geo-fence or when a trailer door has opened or closed, the company said. In another example, BlackBerry Radar could issue a notification as a trailer approached a warehouse, allowing warehouse staff to prepare for the incoming shipment and unload the trailer more quickly.