Orbcomm Expands Footprint with Blue Tree Systems Acquisition

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Orbcomm announced that it has acquired Blue Tree Systems, based in Galway, Ireland, along with its subsidiaries in the United States, Germany and France. Blue Tree provides transportation management solutions across multiple classes of assets that include trucks, refrigerated straight trucks as well as refrigerated and dry trailers. The company serves more than 300 customers in North America, the European Union (EU), United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand.

Blue Tree’s truck in-cab platform is based on an open Android architecture that offers customers a fully managed solution. In addition, Blue Tree offers country-specific compliance solutions in both North America and Europe, meeting the requirements for the Electronic Logging Device (ELD) Mandate regulations, which will require companies to replace drivers’ paper log-books with electronic “Hours of Service” applications within the next several months.

The acquisition of Blue Tree solidifies adds truck in-cab and refrigerated fleet vehicle solutions to Orbcomm’s existing cargo solutions. Customers will have access to an integrated offering encompassing nearly all transportation assets from one source. Blue Tree also adds distribution in key geographies such as Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

“Blue Tree is a strong strategic addition to Orbcomm’s broad transportation portfolio,” said Marc Eisenberg, Orbcomm’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO). “Combined with our acquisition of inthinc in June, Blue Tree enables Orbcomm to provide the most complete transportation solution offering covering nearly every asset class — from in-cab to fleet vehicles to refrigerated assets to dry vans.”