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RFID can catch your Salik tag as it speeds by the toll gate, track mail throughout Saudi Arabia and even store data in your own body

Sanjeev Kumar, Business Development Manager, Ducont

From time to time those of us using the Salik toll pass in Dubai will receive a text message telling us when we have run out of credit, reminding us to top up our account. While we are annoyed we have to dole out more money, we are also relieved for the notice.

“Salik customers are depending on this channel of communication, so they expect that the RTA will inform them when their credit runs out,” says Sanjeev Kumar, Business Development Manager of Ducont, which developed the text messaging software. “If the system fails to work, people complain a lot.”

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CeMAT 2008 in Hanover concentrated mainly on the use of efficient systems, more intelligent software and ergonomic workstations

Developers in the last three years have adopted a totally new approach to the subject of energy saving. Whether through purely technical means (through new drive designs or energy recycling) or through sharpened software solutions – the efficiency of systems has clearly risen.

In order to save energy, the new trend in intralogistics is need-based system control. When a transport path is not used, the software of the respective system switches off the energy supply. This simple principle has an enormous effect. Thus the UK-based system developer, FKI Logistex, promises power savings of up to 60 per cent – and this without any extra overheads during procurement.

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Dubai Trade has announced the launch of its Centralised E-Payment Gateway
(CePG), enabling online payment transactions with Dubai World companies

 
From left: Mohammed Al Muallem, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, DP World’s UAE Region, Mahmood Al Bastaki, Director, Dubai Trade, and Ibrahim Al Janahi, Senior Vice President, Commercial Sales, JAFZA

Rapidly becoming a recognised player within Dubai’s trading sector, Dubai Trade remains adamant about their goal: “To ensure smooth trade flow covering the entire supply- chain system without any time-consuming interruptions,” says Mahmood Al Bastaki, Director of Dubai Trade.

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The road linking Algeria to the future Trans-Maghreb highway has been hailed
as the ‘world’s largest road project’. Once this road is completed, it promises
to not only cut down drive time across the country, but also improve economic conditions.

Transport companies in Algeria say the future Trans-Maghreb Highway
will cut hours off road time and lead to a vast improvement in highway safety

Drivers hauling goods across North Africa can look forward to switching into higher gear as early as this year if the country’s East- West Motorway opens on schedule.

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As an economy develops, the population increases and with it increases crime. Thefts in warehouses are becoming more and more commonplace fuelling the need to have better security.

Mehar Nimkhedkar, Project Manager, Latitude Systems

Warehouse thefts have become almost as common as Louis Vuitton bags in the UAE. Dubai Police reports that the amount of robberies has increased tremendously over the last year.

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Imagine a place where fires cannot exist. Not underwater, but rather your office or warehouse. Should anything ignite, it would immediately extinguish itself. Impossible you say? FirePASS and ETiC believe they have discovered a revolutionary solution, and are quickly labelling fire as an outdated, unnecessary form of risk. If you want it to be.

The HAV FirePass equipment

The official Dubai product launch came last month, and was well received amongst the anticipatory crowd. Within a glass enclosure, the audience witnessed candles being lit and instantaneously flickering out, as if doused with water. But there was no water, nor fire extinguishers, nor wind. So what was it?

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The WTA Techno-Mart

The WTA Techno-Mart successfully displayed all that’s new in the world of technological products and gizmos. What stood out though was Dubai World’s latest DubaiTrade.ae portal.

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In the concrete flooring industry where speed and efficiency are paramount, the question remains: how flat is your floor?

As demand for warehouse and industrial space in the GCC soars, so to does the outcry for greater regulation in concrete flooring standards. The CoGri Group is coming forward with a solution, seeking to implement an internationally recognised certification for flooring contractors within the Middle East.

“The floor is arguably the most important part of the building. It is the table on which all operations take place. Not only is it part of the structure, but also an integrated part of the materials handling system,” says Kevin Dare, Managing Director of CoGri Group Ltd.

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Kevin Smyth, Middle East Director of CHEP

The wooden pallet has endured the challenges of time and is
more than ever the base of most product movement. A hire pool
system, used widely around the world, is only just being embraced
in the Middle East.

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Research has been commissioned by the Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society (LSCMS) into the area of Combined Distribution Networks (CDN). Professor Raymon Krishnan, President, LSCMS in Singapore, argues the significance of preliminary research is compelling and CDN could embed itself into the supply chain of tomorrow.

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