Outsourced Logistics

Offers Twice Monthly Calls with Only Direct All Water Service from the Puget Sound to the Russian Far East

FESCO Russian Pacific Line, a FESCO Transport Group Company, the number one logistics provider to Russia, announced today that it is adding Tacoma as a port of call and introducing a fortnightly service to Vladivostok and all points in the Russian Far East with the first sailing scheduled for November 17, 2011.

The new service will depart the Port of Tacoma with a transit time of 14 days to Vladivostok and will include breakbulk, roll on/roll off, and project cargoes.

“We are introducing this improved service to meet our customers’ growing needs to the Russian Far East with more frequent sailings and faster service,” said Mike Evans, FESCO’s North American president. “We are the only provider offering breakbulk and roll on/roll off service out of the Port of Tacoma and the Port of Everett with a direct call in Vladivostok, which is Russia’s largest port city on the Pacific Ocean.”

The Tacoma service offers roll on/roll off ramps, which can handle up to 120 metric tons to accommodate FESCO’s diverse customer base including automobiles, trucks and trailers, and heavy industrial machinery, to name a few. The top exports from the Pacific Northwest to the Russian Far East are vehicles and parts, mining machinery, and agricultural equipment, as well as oil and gas project cargoes.

“Moving cargo direct from the ports of Tacoma and Everett allows us to provide our customers with very competitive rates,” says Evans. “We are really excited about this new service and our customers are very pleased about the faster transit times with better frequency for their export shipments.”

“FESCO has a long and successful history of servicing the Far East trade and we are experts at handling all types of breakbulk, project, roll on/roll off, and lift on/lift off cargoes,” he said. “We know that our continued success depends on further expansion and this is just one of many new services we will be introducing as our customers look to grow their businesses in this region.”

FESCO Russian Pacific Line is a VOCC (vessel operating common carrier) with a total logistics solution to all Russian Far Eastern regions including the Russian interior. The new port calls with the expanded service will be: Everett, Tacoma, Vladivostok, Korsakov, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, and Magadan.

About FESCO Russian Pacific Line and FESCO Integrated Transport Company

FESCO Transport Group is a multimodal transport holding company and one of the largest marine carriers and container providers in Russia. FESCO operates 47 vessels and 4 icebreakers and is Russia’s largest container, dry bulk and roll on/roll off operator. FESCO is the second largest privately-held railcar operator in the Russian Federation and is further expanding into terminal and port ownership in Western and Far East Russia

As part of the FESCO Transport Group, FESCO Integrated Transport offers fixed-day, weekly service between North America and all ports in the Russian Far East. Highlights of the service include:

-All types of container handling from US East Coast, Gulf and West Coasts.

-Turnkey projects in the Russian Far East and Arctic Russia.

-Special equipment needs for the oil and gas, mining, and forestry industries.

-Out-of-gauge cargo, including modular housing and rolling stock, among others.

-Packing, crating, and warehousing in both the United States and Russia.

-Custom’s clearance in Russia.

Latest FlexNet release improves manufacturing intelligence analytics performance and more efficiently identifies areas for continuous process improvement

LONG BEACH, CA – October 20, 2011 – Apriso, a leading provider of manufacturing software solutions, today announced general availability of FlexNet Manufacturing Process Intelligence (MPI). This application enables real-time access to manufacturing operations intelligence as an extension of Apriso’s Manufacturing Execution Systems.

MPI permits a broader, deeper range of analytics over traditional tools by delivering an integrated reporting analytics platform with prepackaged analysis cubes, new user interfaces, reports and dashboards. What results is greater, faster visibility to an expanded suite of manufacturing KPIs. In addition, MPI includes a Microsoft Excel Add-in that helps to simplify the use of this innovative analytics product.

“Manufacturers seeking competitive advantage understand that manufacturing operations must no longer constrain supply network responsiveness. They are linking supply and demand, while decreasing manufacturing costs and increasing agility. To strike this balance, KPIs are needed to provide visibility to asset availability and capability, work in process (WIP), and inventory movements,” stated by Simon Jacobson in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Analytic Applications, 2011, ID Number: G00215708, published August 30, 2011.

FlexNet Manufacturing Process Intelligence helps to enhance supply chain responsiveness by better linking manufacturing operations to the product supply network. By leveraging standardized reporting metrics and KPIs from across the extended enterprise, MPI helps manufacturers to more quickly and accurately measure and analyze performance, letting manufacturers operate with greater agility.

“Over my 15+ years as a Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence consultant, I have spent considerable time analyzing business intelligence. Over the past few months, I had the opportunity to work with Apriso’s MPI product,” explained Claire Chen, CEO, BI Global Networks. “MPI helps manufacturers to streamline production process planning and measurable business intelligence with greater end-user convenience, accelerating event-to-report awareness and providing time-critical quality alerts.”

MPI leverages industry standard technologies, so it is intuitive and easy to use, supporting quick user adoption. Manufacturers implementing MPI are afforded many benefits, including:

* Out-of-the-box Manufacturing Intelligence, built on an industry standard platform, supports broader Business Intelligence initiatives

* Ubiquitous access to FlexNet’s Data Warehouse and Data Cubes expands and accelerates analytics performance

* Greater access to analytics data spanning broader range of operations, delivered in near real-time

* Pre-configured Microsoft Excel Add-In enables ad hoc analyses or custom dashboards

* Support for global deployment, including multi-location and multi-language capabilities

MPI is now available for purchase, and is being implemented at the time of this announcement at two of Apriso’s customers within the Consumer Products and Cleantech industries.

About Apriso Corporation

Apriso is a software company dedicated to helping its customers transform their global manufacturing operations. It does so by enabling manufacturers to achieve and sustain manufacturing excellence while adapting quickly and easily to market changes. Apriso’s FlexNet is a BPM platform-based software solution for global manufacturing operations management. Apriso supports global continuous improvement by delivering visibility into, control over and synchronization across manufacturing and the product supply network. Apriso serves nearly 200 customers in 40+ countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia. Customers include GM, Volvo CE, Honeywell, L’Oréal, Trixell, Lockheed Martin, Bombardier, Textron Systems, MBDA, Saint-Gobain and Essilor. Learn more at: www.apriso.com.

Apriso and FlexNet are registered trademarks of Apriso Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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New Houston office to service regional needs for breakbulk, project, out-of-gauge and petro-chemical cargoes

LAKE SUCCESS, New York – Ocean World Lines (OWL), a global, single-source NVOCC (non-vessel operating common carrier) and subsidiary of Pacer International, announced today the opening of a new office in Houston to service all cargoes moving to and from the region. In addition to containerized and breakbulk freight, OWL Houston will handle project and out-of-gauge cargoes too large for standard containers as well as logistics solutions specific to the petro-chemical industry.

“We are opening an office in Houston to support our customers’ needs in the region and our mission to grow US exports. Texas is ranked number one in the nation by total value of goods exported, according to the latest US Census data, and Houston is the ideal location as it’s equipped to handle breakbulk shipments. It is a fast growing region and well-known for exporting drilling, petro-chemical related supplies and other large-volume products, such as resins,” says Dan Gardner, OWL’s CEO.

Gardner notes that growth at the Port of Houston also is being driven by the ongoing Panama Canal expansion, which is expected to increase Houston-bound containerized shipments by150 percent over the next two decades to 4.5 million TEUs annually. “The weak dollar is propelling exports right now as well, helping make the Port of Houston a major growth region in the U.S.,” says Gardner. Houston already is the busiest U.S. port in terms of foreign tonnage and is ranked second overall, he notes.

Heading the Houston team is Abel Edgington, a 16-year veteran of logistics operations and management in the Texas area. Edgington, who will serve as regional branch manager, was previously with Triton Overseas Transport, RCS Intermodal and Expeditors International.

“Abel brings strong regional expertise to the new Houston office and his team will be responsible for helping increase exports and developing new business. In fact, we recently hosted an Incoterms® seminar in Houston as part of our nationwide trade seminar series to educate importers and exporters about the challenges of the global marketplace and to make their job easier,” says Gardner.

OWL’s Houston office offers a full range of services including ocean and air freight, cargo consolidation, packing and crating, trucking and warehousing, and de-consolidation and distribution.

About Ocean World Lines

Ocean World Lines, Inc., a subsidiary of Pacer International, Inc., is one of the largest fully bonded NVOCCs in the world. OWL maintains more than 60 service contracts with the top ocean carriers and handles today’s most complex global supply chain requirements.

For more than 30 years, OWL has worked with importers, exporters and freight forwarders to move their goods and provide door-to-door/end-to-end service across the globe. OWL offers a single-source experience for its clients, coupled with the latest visibility solutions.

OWL received the President’s “E” Award for export service excellence and outstanding contribution to U.S. exports earlier this year by the U.S. Department of Commerce. This is the most prestigious award given by the U.S. government to companies that facilitate export trade and contribute to job growth and competitiveness. OWL was the only NVO to receive the “E” Award this year and the primary criterion was four years of successive export growth, accompanied by identifiable results of programs or activities contributing to export expansion.

OWL has over 200 employees worldwide with offices located in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Qingdao, Singapore, Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Houston, Long Beach, Miami, New Orleans, New York, Norfolk, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle, Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg, and Gdynia, Szczecin, Warsaw, Poland, as well as a network of agents worldwide. For more information, please visit www.oceanworldlines.com.

About Pacer International

Pacer International, a leading global door-to-door solutions provider, offers a broad array of services to facilitate the movement of freight from origin to destination through its intermodal and logistics operating segments. The intermodal segment offers container capacity, integrated local transportation services, and door-to-door intermodal shipment management. The logistics segment provides truck brokerage, warehousing and distribution, international freight forwarding, and supply-chain management services. For more information on Pacer International visit www.pacer.com.

Site offers instant vehicle for communicating with customer service

BELLEVUE, Washington – Trade Tech, an integrated global application service provider for the transportation and logistics industry, announced today that it has updated its web site with new content and fresh graphics at www.tradetech.net, along with introducing a chat live area where customers can ask questions and receive answers instantly from a customer service representative.

The new site was created to make it easier for customers to navigate and to provide the latest information about Trade Tech’s full line of products and services. Some of the content includes Trade Tech’s custom Cloud computing solution for the international trade community, full-service 10+2 for Customs House Brokers and customized collaboration and workflow tools designed to improve communication throughout the supply chain.

“Logistics is an international business, and since partners working together in the supply chain are so geographically strewn apart, we created a Cloud-based solution to bring everyone together,” said Bryn Heimbeck, Trade Tech’s CEO. “We aim to contribute substantially to the worldwide conversation on how Cloud computing solutions can significantly improve our industry. The new site will help us do that.”

“The Cloud-based model allows all parties in the supply chain to collaborate with their worldwide offices and counterparts,” said Heimbeck. “This means getting real-time information and, more importantly, good quality information because the overseas counterparts are tied into the same business system. The controlled collection and administration of high quality information was just not possible prior to the Cloud-based model and, consequently, we saw a lot of people staying up late at night or getting up exceptionally early to talk by phone with their overseas offices and agents.”

“Ultimately, this translates into the end customer getting what they are expecting with far greater predictability and enhanced visibility throughout the process,” said Heimbeck. “End customers love the visibility because it allows them to make closer forecasts and improve their own business models.”

Heimbeck says that Trade Tech will expand the site in the near future to include new ways of reaching out to the industry and its customers. “We will be incorporating a video library to provide insights into the industry and proactive ideas for the future of logistics solutions. From this site we will be able to supply instant notifications for our clients, as well as updates for industry professionals seeking advice. We will also add video clips to make it easier for people to understand the ‘big idea’ concepts that drive Trade Tech’s technology development process,” said Heimbeck.

“Our technology is designed to simplify our customers’ work processes so we are looking to add more graphs and other visual tools to help people digest fairly complex ideas and concepts,” he said. “The new look and content of our website reflects our brand, our employees and the services and solutions we provide to our customers.”

About Trade Tech:

Trade Tech is an integrated global application service provider for the transportation and logistics industry and is owned and operated by industry professionals. It also is an ERP for the freight-forwarding and NVOCC community, licensing and delivering applications in eight key areas, including:

 Cost optimization / pricing

 Transportation management

 Rate management

 Supply chain / purchase order management and visibility (tracking and tracing)

 Sales / operations

 Accounting

 AMS/ACI and security related to ocean and air transportation, including all Cargo Security Filing requirements, including Smart Border

 10+2 Rule Solution Provider

Founded in 1997, Trade Tech’s applications link shippers, importers, Customs House Brokers, consignees, NVOCCs, carriers, truckers, warehouses and forwarders, providing visibility of the movement of goods throughout the supply chain. Trade Tech clients enjoy access to the latest applications and data anywhere in the world every time they log on to the Trade Tech network – without any software downloads.