American officials, believing the ship might be carrying weapons or other illicit cargo, tracked it until it reversed course.
When it is operational in 2010, the Galileo system, run by the European Union and the European Space Agency, is meant to compete with America's Global Positioning System (GPS) for in-car navigation, air-traffic control and cargo tracking.
Cargo tracks sales and automatically sends a replenishment of inventory when supply is running low.
Position information brings enormous benefits to many real-life applications ranging from cargo tracking, tourist guiding, emergency evacuation, to countless usage scenarios.
In the context of TF-MI, a shipping network with actors who closely work with others will better perform cargo tracking and provide accurate and timely information to their customers.
But the longshoremen insist they will accept new technologies but only if the remaining cargo-tracking jobs remain union.
Mr. Spinosa said the union's big fear was that many of the cargo-tracking jobs that result from the use of new technology would be contracted out to companies that use nonunion workers.
Ng considers wireless cargo-tracking firm SAVI Technology, whose board he sits on, the best-kept secret of all deals. He boasts that its recent partnership with global port operator Hutchison Port Holdings to provide security and real-time tracking of cargo, using radio frequency identification technology, raises its profile in the world of logistics.
2018 is off to a strong start with a $75 million Series B closed by secure hardware wallet-maker Ledger, $18 million invested in the seed round of Russian blockchain-for-cargo-tracking platform QUASA and $10 million invested in SF-based Harbor Platform, among other large rounds.
Among the fishing docks, cargo terminals and freight tracks of San Pedro, a working-class, partly out-of-work neighborhood on the southern fringes of Los Angeles, Toomer and his pack investigate and wander.
