Transportation, Mobility & Logistics

Hamilton, Bermuda – October 27, 2026 -- Flex LNG Ltd will release unaudited second-quarter 2026 financial results on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, on or about 07:00 CEST (1:00 a.m. EST).

Flex LNG schedules live webcast for 15:00 CEST on results day

The company will hold a live video webcast at 15:00 CEST (9:00 a.m. EST) on the same day, eight hours after the release. Participants must register in advance, and Flex LNG advises doing so 5-10 minutes before the start.

Q&A session follows the presentation

A question-and-answer session will follow the presentation. Instructions for submitting questions will be given at the start of the webcast. Questions can also be sent in advance to the company's investor relations address.

Hurst, Texas – October 27, 2026 -- Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) convened 80 traffic safety leaders from 38 jurisdictions on November 17–19, 2025, to address declining DUI enforcement capacity across the United States.

Attendees included state police agencies, sheriff's offices, municipal police departments, prosecutors' offices and highway safety organizations. MADD ran the National Law Enforcement Leadership Summit on Impaired Driving as a working session rather than a traditional conference.

Four pressures are eroding DUI enforcement effectiveness

Participants said proactive traffic stops have fallen steadily since the COVID-19 pandemic, cutting officer visibility and deterrence. Staffing shortages and accelerated hiring cycles have left departments with newer officers who have limited experience with complex DUI and drug-impaired investigations.

Nashville – October 27, 2026 -- TransCore has won a contract from Transport for New South Wales (TfNSW) to supply the tolling system for Sydney's Western Harbour Tunnel. It is the company's first tolling deployment in Australia and the country's first tagless, video-only tolling system.

TransCore will deploy its Infinity Digital Lane System with video analytics

The multi-lane free-flow system uses video analytics with overhead detection to detect, identify and classify vehicles at highway speeds. It needs no in-pavement sensors, which TransCore says simplifies maintenance and cuts costs. New machine learning capabilities automate vehicle classification and image processing, reducing manual intervention and operating costs while improving accuracy.

Nashville – October 27, 2026 -- TransCore has taken an 18-mile stretch of Interstate 80 through Fairfield and Vacaville live as express lanes, its fourth corridor for the Bay Area Infrastructure Financing Authority (BAIFA) since 2017.

TransCore integrates AVI and ALPR tolling across the I-80 corridor

TransCore supplied the tolling system integration for the corridor. The roadside system uses Automatic Vehicle Identification (AVI) and Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) to detect and toll all users. Covered vehicle types are carpools, vanpools, buses, motorcycles and solo drivers with FasTrak or FasTrak Flex tags.

Dynamic pricing adjusts toll rates in real time based on traffic conditions. Overhead digital signs show the current toll for each zone.

NASHVILLE – October 27, 2026 -- The Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) has taken TransCore's latest-generation Integrity Back Office System live on schedule and has already granted system acceptance, replacing its legacy platform for statewide tolling and E-ZPass operations.

New platform consolidates five core toll functions in one system

The upgraded system unifies toll processing, account management, image review, violations processing and financial reporting. TransCore and DelDOT have worked together for many years on E-ZPass customer service operations.

The deployment moves Delaware to a cloud-capable architecture built to run in clustered, scalable Kubernetes environments. TransCore says the design handles high transaction volumes and adapts to policy and fee changes.

Nashville – October 27, 2026 -- TransCore, a tolling technology and traffic-management supplier, has appointed Deborah Sharpless as its first Chief Experience Officer (CXO), a newly created executive role aimed at tightening ties with tolling and transportation agencies.

Former Maryland Transportation Authority CFO brings 25 years of public sector experience

Sharpless has more than 25 years of experience in finance, operations and customer service. Most recently she was Chief Financial Officer of the Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA), a role she took after serving as Deputy Executive Director.

She also chaired the E-ZPass Interagency Group Executive Board and served as a Director on the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (IBTTA) Board.

Nashville – October 27, 2026 -- TransCore has won a nearly six-year, $146 million contract to run back-office and customer service operations for the RiverLink tolling system on the Louisville–Southern Indiana Ohio River Bridges Project. The Louisville-Southern Indiana Ohio River Bridges (LSIORB) Joint Board, representing Kentucky and Indiana, selected the company as its new toll service provider.

TransCore will deploy its cloud-based Integrity Back Office System

The Integrity® Back Office System is built for high-volume transaction processing, AI-enabled workflows and flexible customer service operations. TransCore will handle account management, invoicing, image review and customer service.

Customer support will include walk-up service centers in both states and a locally based call center. The states aim for a more consistent and reliable customer experience across the Ohio River Bridges corridor.

NEOM – October 27, 2026 -- Monthly RoRo vessel calls at the Port of NEOM reached 30 in September 2026, about 70% above the pre-war average of 17. War-diverted cargo is lifting traffic at a port built for a megacity that is shrinking, according to Windward maritime analysis.

The growth runs against NEOM's own trajectory. The Public Investment Fund wrote down its giga-projects by $8 billion at the end of 2024 and ordered spending cuts of more than 20%. The Line was paused in September 2025, and the $2.5 billion NEOM Stadium planned for the 2034 World Cup was shelved in early October 2026.

Qatar – October 27, 2026 -- The benchmark VLCC rate from Saudi Arabia to China has passed $1.3 million per day, pushing freight above 25-30% of the cost of Gulf crude versus 1-3% in normal market conditions, according to Windward. The surge follows a tanker strike off Qatar on October 7.

Tanker struck 51 nautical miles off Qatar breaks the Hormuz-only attack pattern

An unnamed tanker was hit by multiple projectiles 51 nautical miles off Madinat ash Shamal, UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) reported on October 7. It is the first attack outside the Strait of Hormuz since September 9, when a Greek-owned very large crude carrier was struck in Iraqi waters.

UKMTO has logged 16 attacks on ships in the Middle East Gulf in 10 days. Windward confirmed 12 of the vessels, 11 of them tankers. All were transiting dark through the U.S. military-assisted southern corridor.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- Cold chain operators should tier monitoring by shipment risk, using QR indicators, electronic data loggers and connected devices at different levels instead of one technology on every lane, according to a guide on cold chain monitoring systems.

Indicators flag exceptions with the simplest workflow

WarmMark QR monitors cumulative exposure above a specified temperature, while FreezeSafe QR identifies exposure below a specified temperature. QR-enabled documentation captures information at selected hand-offs without requiring every user to download and interpret a complete data file.

Products vulnerable in both directions need both limits covered. ColdChain Complete is aimed at shipments where upper and lower thresholds must be monitored together.