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..ahh.... apologies,.. it's not clearly if they happened!...so that may not be accurate.

It says 'scheduled' flights....--- ????-- but prior to mid-day there were no flights shown...??.... so a bit inconclusive.

Interesting. Looks like some flights resumed, literally one or two a day,... started mid-May.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airports/fna/statistics

Aiming,... totally agree.

Check out Hamish CV again,... particularly on LinkedIn.

I think he has been brought in to drive the company forward in a more dynamic and focused way. It certainly seems that we have been more proactive in that respect over the past few months,...and remember he only arrived in Jan.

... very confident that this year would be another year of record sales, confirming Tema to be very profitable and C-vid sales more that offsetting the short term downturn in SL and training related sales.

And of course,... he threw out the usual 'teaser'.... this time linked to the July webinar date ..

' .... hoping to put out some fairly interesting information at around that time,..."

Also interesting to hear that they are in the process of looking at expanding personnel.

Y,... think he may have said something along those lines in one of the 'interviews'... ie it isn't an issue,.. we are safe, as we are in effect appointed as we are named in the Scanport/MPS Contract. I don't think are any issues at all.

Which is great,.. but it will nice to have a bit of a fan fair and photo op when we sign our bit with Scanport.

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Yrabs,... I agree in principle,.... we are locked in to the current main contract and so no risk to us,.. but at some point it will become 'cleaner'.. when we sign our contract with Scanport, as per the RNS in March:

"Westminster Group Plc (AIM: WSG), a leading supplier of managed services and technology-based security solutions worldwide, is pleased to report that the main contract (Contract) relating to the container screening project at Tema Port, Ghana, which Westminster has been operating since July 2019, has now been signed between Meridian Port Services and Scanport, confirming Westminster as the Technical Partner for the duration of the Contract and arrangements are now being made for a Westminster director to travel to Ghana to finalise the associated Scanport-Westminster contract."

..feeling that we are going to get a lot of news over the coming 2 or 3 weeks.

The getting back to work theme will have definitely generated orders of screening and PPE equipment and we are active in so many areas, the transport hub vending machines and airport screening being just two of these.

The sports venues in the US and the casino's should also allow us to generate some decent PR once they are up and running, and with the new pro-active the PR machine at WSG beginning to tick that should be good for raising our profile even further.

We should also expect an update on cover-19 related sales in terms of actual £'s,... presumably at the AGM if not before and that will be very interesting.

July/August should see the TEMA contract signed assuming some international travel opens up as we are expecting,... and the team can also get to the UAE and progress those discussions?

Playing their games at a limited number of large venues. We have already supplied fever detection kit to the US.... and been linked with a NBA team as well as a major US Football team, so we clearly have some form of contact, sales channel out there.
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"The rest of the NBA season is set to be played at Florida's Disney World Resort from 31 July.

The season was suspended on 11 March because of coronavirus measures.

Thirteen Western Conference teams and nine Eastern Conference teams will contest eight games each to determine seedings for the play-offs.

The ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando includes a 5,000-seat indoor basketball facility.

Under the NBA's proposals, all 22 teams will be based at the resort and games will be played without spectators to minimise the threat of Covid-19.

On Thursday the NBA board of governors approved the plan to resume the season.

The National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) must agree to the plan before it is confirmed. It is expected to vote during a conference call on Friday."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/basketball/52924523

Good point. Well made!

So it has now been announced as government policy,..... and clearly WSG have been ahead of the game, expecting this,..or even been privvy the discussions,...... I'd expect an RNS ( Reach?),.... very shortly too provide and update as to where we are with this very soon.

It's about 3 weeks,.... since the RNS telling us about the vending machine/transport hub development and clearly things have moved forward as Grant Chapps statement confirms.

.. technically,... not a face 'mask'''... a face covering,.....

Transport Minister has just announced.

If only we had the licence for medical vending machines for selling of face masks ....

"One such development is an extension of our COVID-19 PPE sales through medical vending machines. We have recently secured exclusive rights to specialised medical vending machines for use in the UK to be used for dispensing packs of face coverings, sanitiser and other safety equipment for deployment at key locations around the and transport hubs country and we are already in discussions with major transport organisations. With the drive to now have the travelling public wear protective face covering on public transport etc this initiative could greatly increase our distribution of PPE and safety equipment."

https://www.lse.co.uk/rns/WSG/final-results-28z26ww2j3z9vef.html

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Yes,.. they do the WG320... walk through scanner which is a combined fever and metal detector.

https://www.wi-ltd.com/product/wg-320-walk-through-fever-detector-metal-detector/

I agree.

Certainly looks like he gets things done,.. and the Middle East and Army links should be very useful.

The very fact that they have put him in place, and he is straight out there in front of the press is very positive.

Smithers,.. agreed,.. about the new cross-selling opportunities. We'd always thought that it would be hard to break in to the European market as it is so 'mature'.... hence the focus on Africa/MENA regions.... but this might have created an opportunity that we didn't expect.

What is exciting is the time-frame,... because of the desire to kick stark the aviation industry,.. if this is going to happen,... it's going to happen over the coming few weeks,.... today's news may be followed by others in short order.

The vending machine at transport hubs can't be far away? It might sound like small beer,... but imagine one in every railway station/ tube station/ coach station/shopping mall..... every Tesco's/Sainburys...... huge potential.

As somebody else said earlier,... wait until sports stadiums,.. music venues,.... start opening, we sell lots of other products which are also useful.

I wonder if we will hear more on this soon?

"One such development is an extension of our COVID-19 PPE sales through medical vending machines. We have recently secured exclusive rights to specialised medical vending machines for use in the UK to be used for dispensing packs of face coverings, sanitiser and other safety equipment for deployment at key locations around the and transport hubs country and we are already in discussions with major transport organisations. With the drive to now have the travelling public wear protective face covering on public transport etc this initiative could greatly increase our distribution of PPE and safety equipment."

I think there is now more than enough going on, in many sectors of the business,.. to ensure regular news flow and that is precisely what we need to raise 'brand' awareness.

The new web site,... should be with us soon... I wonder if that will be pre-AGM.

"A key strategy for commenced in 2019 and running into 2020 is redefining our diverse businesses in line with our "One Company, One Vision" approach. This will involve rebranding parts of our business to better reflect the Westminster brand and regardless of what company or division or what product or service is involved it will be undertaken and recognised as Westminster. As part of this exercise we are undertaking a complete overhaul of our extensive web presence bringing all our various websites into a new and expanded Westminster Group website. Our extensive portfolio of products and services will all be brought together into one large but easily navigable site and categorised in three key focus sectors - Land, Sea and Air."

Easy Jet have said that they want to be 40% operational by the end of July and 70% by the end of August.

So if the thermal imaging does become part of the protocol for airports, this market is going to huge and it is going to happen very soon,.. if it's not already happening.

Here are those links again.

https://www.iata.org/contentassets/5c8786230ff34e2da406c72a52030e95/safely-restart-aviation-joint-aci-iata-approach.pdf

https://www.easa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/dfu/EASA-ECDC_COVID-19_Operational%20guidelines%20for%20management%20of%20passengers_final.pdf

"Global standards

The EASA and ECDC guidelines will make an important contribution to the discussions being held by the International Civil Aviation Organization COVID-19 Aviation Recovery Taskforce (ICAO CART) which is tasked with developing the global standards needed for the safe re-start of aviation.

To assist with the CART process, IATA has been working continuously with authorities and industry partners to develop common positions. With the airport sector, a document—Safely Restarting Aviation: ACI and IATA Joint Approach—has been published."

The IATA (International Air Transport Association) represents some 290 airlines comprising 82% of global air traffic.

Here are some of our products,.. which give you an indication of size etc.,

https://www.wass-ltd.com/coronavirus/

Qd.... to be quick and relatively un-invasive it will probably take the form of a camera on a tripod/mount..... linked to a computer/tv screen.

There is a photo of one system in this article,.. but I have seen much smaller systems where the camera is mounted a trolley, which has wheels etc.,.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8292297/Heathrow-airport-trial-thermal-imaging-cameras-spot-passengers-carrying-coronavirus.html

Qd.... the protocols and standards are being agreed,. literally right now,... have a look at the links in my previous post--- hence the trials and tests which are on-going....

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