This agreement will enable the TCR Group to integrate the Targa Telematics technological platform into its offer of services to ground handlers and airlines.
An industry-wide mutually unique agreement has been signed in Brussels, cementing the partnership between TCR Group, the world-leading Ground Support Equipment (GSE) rental company active in 120 airports in 18 countries, and Targa Telematics, leader in solutions for car rentals and shared mobility. The latter will contribute its technologies for the management, maintenance, monitoring and pooling of service and ground support vehicles.
Through the partnership, TCR seeks to boost its offers to customers with a highly competitive and differentiated range of innovation-based services and, more generally, the further growth of a market in which it already enjoys consolidated leadership. Targa in collaboration with TCR intends to consolidate its role as a leader in the digitalization of airport management and the challenges inherent in ground handling – a sector currently in great ferment.
The Targa Telematics digital platform is well-proven by its solid experience in managing large fleets of connected vehicles and is a pioneer in airport telematics with specific patents to its credit. By enabling the remote, real-time monitoring of GSE vehicles and motorized assets, it improves processes and activities, ensures optimum maintenance with significant safety repercussions and allows sharing between different operators, authorising access and use by relevant technical staff – similar to car sharing. The Targa Telematics digital platform is also able to certify to the authorities the adequacy of activities carried out and their compliance with current regulations. These features will be integrated with TCR’s competences, so that in addition to operating leasing services, it will open logistics and operational sites in all major airports for the support and the maintenance of vehicles used by their customers.
“We are proud of this partnership and will offer our best to support TCR in its ambitious objectives”, said Nicola De Mattia, CEO of Targa Telematics. “We will work together to implement new business models with positive impacts on the rates of use of vehicles and on safety, having already gained experience on large-scale projects and will provide not only telematics but also smart mobility and pooling for airport vehicles, from the simplest to the most complex. Combining our capacities, we will work together to develop the sector and open up new markets, where often the use of these technologies has not been started yet”.
“I strongly believe that this partnership has been possible because we both have the same high-level quality expectations and a continuous improvement approach to optimally serve our customers. We are proud at TCR to propose to our customers such a performant solution which is fully in line with the GSE market expectations and with our commercial philosophy: allow customers to continuously ease and improve operations cost effectively and safely. The important scalability of the TCR Targa Telematics’ offer is key to respond to our customers’ ambitions deployment plans for this type of solution”, said Tom Bellekens, COO of TCR.
www.targatelematics.com and www.tcr-group.com
TARGA TELEMATICS
Chief Marketing Officer
Silvia Salemi, Phone [+39] 0422 247915 – Mobile [+39] 347 5635278 silvia.salemi@targatelematics.com
Communication Manager
Susanne Furini, Phone [+39] 0422 247915 – Mobile [+39] 345 7274925 susanne.furini@targatelematics.com
TCR GROUP
Marketing and Communications Manager
Mercedes Dieguez, Mobile [+32] 479792136 mercedes.dieguez@tcr-group.com
TARGA TELEMATICS PROFILE IN BRIEF
Targa Telematics is a company with 20 year’s experience in connected vehicles. It offers high-tech solutions in the areas of telematics, telemetry and smart mobility. It is a leader in the digital platform and applications for short and long-term renters, large finance companies and large fleets, with services ranging from insurance telematics to asset and fleet management, remote diagnostics and telemetry of cars, professional vehicles and from construction and agricultural environments to management of airport service vehicles.
TCR GROUP PROFILE IN BRIEF
TCR is headquartered in Zaventem (Brussels’ Airport) since 1999. TCR’s services and pooling offer encompasses GSE rental services, repair & maintenance, fleet services’ management which includes telematics, GSE financing and supply of second hand. The company is the leading GSE rental company in the aviation industry and is active in over 120 airports through 18 countries worldwide managing a total fleet of over 26.000 units of GSE.