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Apr 16, 2008 Navis Wins Contract with Largest Terminal in South America Santos-Brasil Tecon Terminal Will Replace Its Legacy System

OAKLAND, Calif.-- Navis, a Zebra Technologies company (NASDAQ:ZBRA) and the world’s first company to automate marine terminal operating systems (TOS), 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™ SPARCS TOS by the end of second quarter 2008.

“The key word for choosing Navis is automation. We need a system that will mitigate human error while increasing productivity and efficiency. We have simply outgrown our system,” Abbruzzini Filho said.

Specifically, it was the advanced applications bundled with SPARCS TOS that made the Navis software an attractive solution. Navis™ SPARCS Prime Route, Navis™ SPARCS Expert Decking and Navis™ SPARCS Auto Stow come with SPARCS TOS and all played a pivotal role in Santos-Brasil’s decision to upgrade its in-house system.

“Our system today is not fully automated for yard and vessel processes. The yard and vessel planners have to make decisions manually,” Abbruzzini Filho said. “Those processes will be automated when we implement SPARCS.”

Abbruzzini Filho added: “With Navis Prime Route, I will estimate optimal work assignments for tractors and automatically dispatch the tractor to the appropriate RTG, railhead or quay crane for loading or unloading. Expert Decking will streamline yard positioning by automatically distributing containers throughout the yard, preventing congestion and promoting throughput. Auto Stow will automate vessel planning and generate optimized stow plans based on rules we set. All of this will be done without human error, thanks to Navis. We needed a system that provides this kind of automation intelligence.”

Santos-Brasil Tecon Terminal has five berths with a total length of 1,280 meters, 754,000 square meters of total area, and 11 ship-to-shore container cranes, one mobile harbor crane, 22 rubber-tired gantry cranes (or RTG cranes), and 27 reach stackers owned by the terminal. With the signing of the Tecon Terminal, Brazil has the most Navis customers in South America and Argentina is a close second. There are six Navis customers in Brazil and five in Argentina. In South America, there are now a total of 22 Navis customers.

“The Navis SPARCS TOS will enable Santos-Brasil Tecon Terminal to address tough challenges that may arise, as a result of its growth, and will help the terminal successfully meet or exceed its business goals,” said Deane Stuart, Navis’ Vice President of Maritime Sales for the Americas. “We look forward to working with Santos-Brasil Tecon Terminal as it enters a new phase in automation.”