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maltatoday, SUNDAY, 22 MAY 2016 VI AVIATION, SHIPPING & LOGISTICS 5th Annual MBA Mediterranean Business Aviation Connecting Business Aviation in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East Thursday 30th June 2016 The Palace Hotel, Malta Presented by Official Carrier Supported by VIP Airport Transfers Sponsored by Sponsored by MEDIA PARTNER Air Malta 10% discount! 10% discount will apply on published pricing for travel on Air Malta scheduled services. When you register for the conference, you will receive information about this special offer. DC Aviation airport transfers! DC Aviation is the sponsor of VIP Airport Transfers for conference delegates who will travel to Malta from abroad. Transfers from the airport to your hotel will be complimentary. Discounted room rates at the Palace Hotel! Discounted room rates for conference participants. Rooms are subject to availability. CONFIRMED EXPERT-SPEAKERS Antonio Astorino, Environment Expert, EUROCONTROL Robert Baltus, Associate Sales Director Central, Northern Europe and the Middle East, Executive Jet Management Europe Colin Brickman, Managing Partner, CAMO4jets Stanley Bugeja, President, MBAA Allister Crossley, Senior Manager - Aviation, Dohle Corporate and Trust Services Jay Faria, President and Commercial Director, Airtrade Aviation Glen Heavens, Managing Director, Synergy Aviation Andrew Hughes, Partner, Principal Business Aviation, Mango Aviation Partners Tatjana Obrazcova, Founder/Managing Partner, MEDIA PARTNER Air Malta 10% discount! 10% discount will apply on published pricing for travel on Air Malta scheduled services. When you register for the conference, you will receive information about this special offer. DC Aviation airport transfers! DC Aviation is the sponsor of VIP Airport Transfers for conference delegates who will travel to Malta from abroad. Transfers from the airport to your hotel will be complimentary. Discounted room rates at the Palace Hotel! Discounted room rates for conference participants. Rooms are subject to availability. CONFIRMED EXPERT-SPEAKERS Antonio Astorino, Environment Expert, EUROCONTROL Robert Baltus, Associate Sales Director Central, Northern Europe and the Middle East, Executive Jet Management Europe Colin Brickman, Managing Partner, CAMO4jets Stanley Bugeja, President, MBAA Allister Crossley, Senior Manager - Aviation, Dohle Corporate and Trust Services Jay Faria, President and Commercial Director, SPONSORSHIP & EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITIES Promote your products and services! For more information about promotional packages, please contact sponsor@aeropodium.com For more Information and to Register, please Visit www.aeropodium.com/mba.html Email: register@aeropodium.com Tel: +44 20 8123 7072 MEDIA PARTNER STORY THE STORY THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY STORY THE STORY THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY STORY THE STORY THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY maltatoday maltatoday maltatoday maltatoday maltatoday maltatoday A new way to detect JAMES FOSTER RACING across ocean basins at speeds of over 500 miles per hour, tsuna- mis can wreak devastation along coastlines thousands of miles from their origin. Our modern tsunami de- tection networks reliably detect these events hours in advance and provide warningss of their arrival, but predicting the exact size and impact is more difficult. Evacuating coastal zones can cost millions of dollars. To reliably predict whether a tsunami is large enough to require evacuations, many more observations from the deep ocean are needed. Researchers from the Uni- versity of Hawaii (including me), funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), are partnering with the Matson and Maersk shipping com- panies and the World Ocean Council to equip 10 cargo ships with real-time high- accuracy GPS systems and satellite communications. Each vessel will act as an open-ocean tide gauge. Data from these new tsu- nami sensors are streamed, via satellite, to a land-based data center where they are processed and analyzed for tsunami signals. It is a pilot project to turn the moving ships into a distributed network of sen- sors that could give coastal communities more time to evacuate. Monitoring the world's oceans Despite the advances in tsunami monitoring and modeling technology over the last decade, it remains difficult for hazard response agencies to get enough information about potential tsunami threats. The prob- lem is that there are too few observations of tsunamis to provide sufficiently accurate predictions about when, where and how severely tsunamis might occur. In particular, there are very few sensors in the deep oceans that often lie between tsunami sources – usually earthquakes occurring under the ocean trenches that mark where tectonic plates meet – and the distant coastlines that might be threatened. Gaps in the coverage of the network, as well as routine outages of instruments, limit the ability of the current de- tection system to accurately assess the hazard posed. The deep ocean sen- sor networks that do exist are expensive to build and maintain, so only a limited number are deployed, at locations chosen based on our best current understand- ing of the hazards. But the unexpectedly huge 2011 Tohoku, Japan, earthquake and the unanticipated type of fault slip that caused Eurocargo Logistics announces rebrand EUROCARGO Logistics, the leading provider for reefer logistics, announces a corporate revamping with the introduction of a rede- signed logo, stationery and the concurrent launch of a new company website. Eurocargo Logistics has earned a reputation as one of the leading and most reliable providers for reefer logistics in Malta, since the company's founding in 1999. Evolving over time, the company has broadened its horizons and is now offering an A-to-Z logistics solution for all its clients' needs, delivering quality combined with reliability. Active Enterprises Co. Ltd was entrusted with the rebranding of Eurocargo Logistics. The rebrand in- cludes a new corporate logo representing a global logis- tics company. The logo is bold and uses strong black and green colours, also featuring a box symbol to represent cargo packages.

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