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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Port of Houston taps APS for automated products

APS Technology Group, Inc. announced the Port of Houston has selected the tech firm to provide optical character recognition and automation technology solutions for its Bayport container terminal complex.

APS said in a statement that the Bayport terminal would implement the APS Gate OCR Portal to automate equipment identification, traffic processing and damage inspection imaging at a new entry gate.

The Port of Houston is expanding upon six existing lanes of Gate OCR that APS installed at Bayport in 2010 with six additional portals to process entering trucks, APS said.

The OCR system automatically identifies containers, chassis, and license plates associated with the equipment, and has already helped lead to a 48 percent reduction in truck idling and has significantly reduced emissions at Bayport, according to APS.