Port automation merger
Two market leaders in optical character recognition (OCR) have merged their port automation solution businesses together to form a new company called Certus Port Automation.
Certus combines the worldwide experience of both High Tech Solutions (HTS) and Dalosy Industrial Systems (DIS) who together have one of the world’s largest market share of deployments in the marine terminal sector.
Meta Rotenberg, vice president marketing and business development, High Tech Solutions (HTS), said to Port Strategy: “The merger will position Certus as a unique solution provider with a broad range of integrated automation and service solutions on a single platform.”
She added that the strategy behind the move is to provide an integrated solution to the market extending beyond automation and providing security, IT and terminal process design.
HTS and DIS have cooperated in over 20 projects in the past including three complete port automation projects comprising security and automation solutions with terminal process design.
Certus technology is now present in over 50 terminals and in 25 countries.
“This broad range of hands on experience enables us to enables us to have a very comprehensive understanding of terminal needs and processes”, Ms Rotenburg added.
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