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.
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.
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.
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.
Nashville – October 27, 2026 -- TransCore has launched open-road all-electronic tolling (AET) at the New Hope-Lambertville Toll Bridge (U.S. Route 202), the first of the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission's (DRJTBC) seven legacy toll bridges to complete the conversion.
Nashville – October 27, 2026 -- TransCore has been selected by the Tampa-Hillsborough Expressway Authority (THEA) for a lifecycle replacement of the roadside toll collection system on the Selmon Expressway, covering 18 miles and 17 toll zones.
Hong Kong – October 27, 2026 -- Windward has tied 45 Russia-trading shadow fleet tankers, held through 45 single-ship Hong Kong companies, to one untraceable nominee director, and 42 of the vessels are sanctioned.
Per Windward's visual link analysis, all but three of the tankers share 19 ISM managers with addresses in one industrial cluster in Sumqayit, Azerbaijan. The three exceptions are the unsanctioned vessels, which use ISM managers in the UAE.
Mediterranean – October 27, 2026 -- A Mali-flagged general cargo vessel switched off its AIS transponder for 25 days and 8 hours off eastern Libya between August 28 and September 23, 2026. Windward's maritime intelligence team assesses the gap as deliberate.
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.
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.
