A US stevedore that picked Logisoft for its Jacksonville RoRo terminal
APS Stevedoring, LLC is an auto stevedoring company headquartered in Long Beach, California. Founded in 2011 at the Port of Richmond discharging finished vehicles, APS has grown into the largest 100% family-owned stevedoring company in the United States, with active operations at seven US ports including Jacksonville, Brunswick, Baltimore, Tacoma, Portland, Richmond, and Freeport. The company works under direct contracts with major auto manufacturers and the leading global RoRo carriers.
In Jacksonville, APS Stevedoring holds the majority of the auto stevedoring work moving across the port. To run that operation at the speed and accuracy the lines and the manufacturers expect, APS Stevedoring chose Logisoft as the terminal operating system for Jacksonville, covering vessel operations, yard management, handheld scanning on the deck and in the yard, and direct integration with the shipping lines they discharge for.
Vessel discharge on Logisoft TOS
Every call begins with a stow plan and a labor plan, and ends with a reconciled tally. APS Stevedoring runs RoRo vessel operations on Logisoft TOS at Jacksonville, with pre-arrival planning, deck and ramp control, damage prevention, lashing, and close-out reconciliation tracked on the same shipment record. Drivers, headers, and supervisors work from the same view, so traffic flow on the ramp, hold sequencing, and tallies stay aligned with what the line and the agent already approved.
Yard management for finished vehicles
Once a unit comes off the ramp, the yard is where stevedoring becomes a precision exercise. Logisoft Yard Management gives APS Jacksonville a live picture of every slot in the terminal: pre-marshalling lanes for outbound vessels, hold-and-release zones for inspections and recalls, damage areas, and finished-goods storage for the manufacturer. Each move is captured at the point it happens, so the yard map matches the physical yard at all times, and a vehicle that needs to be located can be found by VIN in seconds rather than walked-down by row.
The handheld app on the deck and in the yard
Stevedoring lives or dies on what the yard team can do without going back to a desk. APS Stevedoring crews work the deck and the yard with the Logisoft handheld app: every VIN is scanned at the point of discharge, every yard move is logged where it happens, and every damage exception is recorded with photos directly against the unit. The handheld writes back to the same terminal operating record in real time, which is what keeps the yard map accurate, the line tally clean, and the manufacturer hand-off paperwork ready the moment a unit clears.
Direct integration with the shipping lines
A stevedore's data only matters if it lines up with what the carrier is expecting. Logisoft connects directly to APS Stevedoring's shipping line partners: stow plans and vehicle manifests come in from the line, and tallies, damage reports, and exception data go back out from the terminal, on the same record the gangs are working on. There is no separate spreadsheet to reconcile and no email chain to chase, so the line, the terminal, and the manufacturer are looking at the same picture by the time the vessel sails.
One platform for vessel, yard, handheld, and carrier flow
What ties the operation together is that the vessel plan, the yard map, the handheld scans, and the shipping line integration all live on the same Logisoft platform. The discipline that APS Stevedoring is known for, zero-damage handling, on-time vessel turnarounds, and tight reconciliation between the line, the manufacturer, and the terminal, is supported by the system instead of fought against it.