MAN Diesel and ILS Enter into Three-Year Agreement.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Inventory Locator Service,[R] LLC (ILS), the world's premiere e-marketplace for the aviation, defense and marine industries, today announced that MAN Diesel has signed a three-year license for access to its e-marketplace.

MAN Diesel, the world's largest provider of large-bore

This is one of several agreements that ILS has signed in recent months. Similar agreements with OEMs such as Wartsila, Alfa Laval, and ABB have gone into effect allowing ILS to further expand its services worldwide.

"We at MAN Diesel have decided to subscribe to ILS with a view to supplement our existing global sales and service activities," said Steen Mortensen, Senior Manager of PrimeServ After Sales, MAN Diesel Copenhagen. "Having access to ILS in many of our sales locations across the world brings us even closer to our customers. MAN Diesel aims to use the ILS platform as an additional tool to be closer to our customers."

"We are pleased that MAN Diesel has chosen ILS," said Bruce Langsen, president, ILS. "Many of the world's leading ship operators use ILS to source and procure equipment. The ILS marketplace includes a tremendous number of suppliers with millions of line items of equipment for sale. This agreement helps ILS to increase the inventory available to its subscribers, and in turn, allows MAN Diesel to list their equipment and spares faster and more efficiently to better serve their customers."

About MAN Diesel

MAN Diesel (http://www.manbw.com) is the world's leading provider of large-bore diesel engines for marine and power plant applications. The company develops two-stroke and four-stroke engines, auxiliary engines, turbochargers and propulsion packages that are manufactured both by the MAN Diesel Group and its licensees and deliver between 450 kW and 97.3 MW of power. MAN Diesel employs over 6,400 staff in Germany, Denmark, France, the UK, the Czech Republic and China. The global after-sales organization, MAN Diesel PrimeServ, comprises a network of the company's own service centers and authorized partners.

About ILS

For more than 25 years, Inventory Locator Service,[R] LLC, a business unit of Aviall, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Boeing Company, has provided information via its global electronic marketplace to enable subscribers in the aviation, marine and defense industries to buy and sell parts, equipment and services. Started in 1979, ILS is the first, largest, and most active business-to-business electronic marketplace serving the aviation and marine industries.

ILS subscribers include more than 600 ship owners, operators, managers, manufacturers, distributors, and resellers from around the world. Aviation and marine suppliers list over 5 billion parts on ILS databases, which are accessed over 50,000 times each business day. Today, ILS' services are used by over 20,000 subscribers in 93 countries to buy and sell aircraft and marine parts and equipment.

Headquartered in Memphis, Tenn., ILS has offices in North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. For additional information about ILS, visit www.ILSmart.com or call 1-901-794-5000.