APL Terminal & Ports Software Comes with NCC Group Escrow Deposit

MANCHESTER & HONG KONG, 11 April 2011 – NCC GROUP offer escrow services for all arl-shipping.com terminals and port software source code.

In order to safeguard its customers’ interests, arl-shipping.com has agreed with NCC Group, that source code for all its off-the-shelf software will be deposited with NCC Group. ARL will automatically deposit source code for new software versions with NCC Group, allowing any ARL customer to tap into the deposit arrangement by setting up an escrow agreement directly with NCC Group. The only pre-requisite for signing up to the NCC Group escrow is that a terminal or port has a valid support & maintenance agreement, or a valid annualized licence fee agreement, with ARL.

“Whilst we intend to be an active contributor to the transport industry in the long run, our customers are at times somewhat uneasy purchasing compiled software with the intellectual property rights to the source code placed with a small software company, and we are happy to address this concern up front, by depositing our source code with a leading global escrow provider, NCC Group”, says ARL director and CEO, René Bendt, and further adds: 'NCC Group is a recognized leader in their field, hence providing a trustworthy security for business continuity concerning the often mission critical software we deliver to our customers”. ARL’s NCC Group Account Manager supplements, “We are happy to be selected as the preferred escrow provider for ARL, and we are glad to add our recognized name as a reliable guarantee to ARL’s customers”.

For additional information on the escrow options from NCC Group, contact Sally Kelly or visit www.nccgroup.com. For insight into arl-shipping.com’s software solutions contact Evgeny Drokov or visit www.arl-shipping.com, where interested parties can register for an on-line presentation.

About NCC Group

NCC Group provides 15,000 worldwide organisations with IT assurance through our escrow, verification, security & software testing, audit and website performance solutions through a global network of offices. Through these services NCC Group give their customers the confidence that their business critical information, systems, networks, websites & software are appropriate, protected, secure, compliant and effective.

About arl-shipping.com

Hong Kong based arl-shipping.com Limited provides innovative and configurable IT solutions to the global transportation community. arl-shipping.com IT solutions are developed by ARL Consulting B.V’s Siberian development centre.