SEATTLE, April 21, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Secure Asset Reporting Services (Pink Sheets:SARO) has signed an agreement with Northland Services Inc. to provide satellite based tracking units to track container chassis for Northland Services. This is a major expansion of our existing maritime tracking service to Northland.
Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Northland provides barge transportation to Alaska and Hawaii, offers marine vessel charter services, and stevedoring and terminal services. The SARS system will enable Northland to manage their growing land-based fleet of 1,000 container chassis, 10,000 containers and 4,000 flats in Alaska and Washington.
Currently, Northland uses SARS Tracpoint (r) vessel monitoring service to track its vessels operating between Puget Sound and Alaska. This service allows Northland Management to see where their vessel is located while en route. Northland operates 20 barges and 3 landing craft.
"We are pleased that Northland selected the SARS Tracpoint system to track their equipment and provide our services to their customers in the Pacific Northwest, Hawaii and Alaska," said Clayton Shelver CTO of SARS Corp. "The battery powered tracking device will track the chassis for 2 to 4 years per battery."
"The SARS Tracpoint System will allow Northland to optimize our asset utilization far more quickly and less expensively than our current 'manual' efforts," said Barry Hachler, CFO of Northland Services, Inc. "We have been pleased with the performance of the SARS vessel tracking system, and see chassis tracking as a natural extension of that great service."
About Northland Services
Northland Services has provided common carrier and contract barge transportation services between Seattle and various points in Alaska and Hawaii since 1977. The company's Seattle terminal is the largest barge terminal on the West Coast, encompassing more than 70 acres with warehouse capacity in excess of 35,000 square feet. Northland also provides specialized charter services, stevedoring and terminal services to a host of customers including common carriers, vessel operators and industrial companies. The company is recognized as the flexible, innovative, and cost-effective alternative to traditional shipping services, both for break-bulk and container cargoes.
About SARS Corp.
SARS, Inc. ("SARS" or the "Company") designs, manufactures and maintains telemetry equipment and services for web-based remote monitoring/control of equipment, inventory and real-time asset location. SARS provides solution based systems that monitor and control water treatment facilities, effluent treatment facilities, LPG/refined fuel inventory systems, marine vessel tracking and vehicle tracking. Our systems include a monitoring and alarm service for marine piracy, equipment malfunction, violation of operating parameters (e.g. oil rigs move off station) and consumption based maintenance events. SARS utilizes various off the shelf products together with its own proprietary hardware to develop systems. Our back-office systems can communicate with all available satellite systems, GPRS networks and local area networks. We have systems on all seven continents and four ocean regions. www.sarscorp.com.
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