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By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, January 28th, 2014

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Cubic Tracking Business in Partnership With Swiss Firm; Completes NIST Validation Cubic Corp. [CUB] says that its Cubic Global Tracking Solutions subsidiary has entered into a leasing agreement and strategic partnership with Switzerland’s cargo monitoring service provider arviem AG, a deal valued at more than $3.2 million that calls for the Swiss company to use Cubic’s tracking and monitoring equipment. Cubic will supply its Global Sentinel products and technology to monitor 30,000 shipments annually. Under the strategic partnership, the two…

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