Zebra Technologies (ZBRA) Unit Wins Terminal Replacement Contract at Port of Santos

Navis, a Zebra Technologies company (NASDAQ: ZBRA) has won a landmark deal to replace the in-house terminal operating system (TOS) at the Santos-Brasil Tecon Terminal where efficiency is expected to improve by at least 20 percent after the upgrade.

We expect to improve efficiency within a year of installing the Navis software, said Ricardo Abbruzzini Filho, IT manager at Santos-Brasil Tecon Terminal, which handles about 1.3 million TEU per year.

The Santos-Brasil Tecon Terminal at the Port of Santos is the largest terminal located at the largest port in South America. Its six-year-old Container Terminal Information System (CTIS) will be replaced with Navis(TM) SPARCS TOS by the end of second quarter 2008.

Zebra Technologies Corporation (Zebra) designs, manufactures and distributes specialty printing devices that print variable information on demand at the point of issuance.[SM]

Source: Street Insider