Further Export Sales Contracts for Tracplus Global

Dunedin-based tracking company TracPlus Global has announced that it has secured a number a significant international contracts recently. Following on from the company’s success in being selected by the National Aerial Firefighting Centre (NAFC) as the exclusive integration provider for airborne fire fighting in Australia, TracPlus Global has secured significant tracking and integration contracts in North America, as well as establishing strong market channels into South America. “It’s been a good couple of months,” said Stuart Campbell, the CEO of TracPlus Global.

A major Canadian hydroelectric company has selected TracPlus Global to integrate tracking data from more than 150 contracted helicopters that are using different tracking systems. Campbell explained that instead of having to mandate a single tracking solution to contractors, or having to decode tracking data from half a dozen different tracking providers, customers can now see all of their contracted assets on a single TracPlus screen. He also said that it provided a dramatic improvement in meeting occupational safety and health obligations.

Health and safety requirements and operational efficiencies have also led a major Californian gas and electric company to equip its field engineers and contractors with TracPlus’ SHOUT—a hand-held tracking and global messaging device. Similarly, one of the world’s largest mining companies has begun providing its key personnel operating in the world’s remotest regions with the SHOUT as a company requirement.

Meanwhile, Queensland Volunteer Coast Guard Australia has followed in the steps of Coastguard New Zealand in choosing TracPlus Global as its sole tracking provider. Campbell described the string of successes as “the result of years of hard graft by our talented team to develop our unique product”.

TracPlus is in the final stages of testing the next generation of its product—TracPlus 2.0. Campbell claimed that the closely guarded application represents a major leap forward in technology and capability, for the first time bringing together multi-asset, multi-view, multi-track and multi-map capabilities into a single easy-to-use application. The company is planning a nationwide product launch tour before Christmas.

TracPlus has also been a strong supporter of extreme adventurers and has tracked multiple successful world record attempts, including trans-Tasman kayakers James Castrission and Justin Jones, Earthrace, Tasman rower Sean Quincey, round-the-world yachtswoman Jessica Watson, and helicopter pilots Scott Kasprowicz and Steve Sheik. TracPlus Global is currently supporting The Ultimate Ride jet-ski team making their way from London to Auckland to raise cancer awareness. Boeing 747 pilot Jeremy Burfoot and his support team plan to ride across the English Channel, through the waterways of Europe, across the Black and Red Seas, through the Suez Canal, across the Bay of Bengal and Timor Seas, to Sydney and then across the Tasman Sea to finally arrive in Auckland—a trip of more than 32,000 kilometres—in five months, almost doubling the current jet-ski distance record.