Baltimore (Maryland, United States), October 12, 2007 - Ports America, a leading independent stevedore on the US East and Gulf coasts has gone live with a major EDISPHERE implementation at Houston and Baltimore port, exchanging 1000s of EDI transactions daily with it's customers, which are world's largest shipping lines, such as Atlantic Container Lines, APL, Hamburg Sud, Hapag-Llyod, National Shipping Co. of Saudi Arabia, Mitsui OSK lines, Maersk, etc.

Ports America selected EDISPHERE to automate Booking, Gate moves, Container releases, and Custom clearances at all it's ports with shipping lines and US customs. Within 3 months of selecting EDISPHERE, it integrated it's Houston Port and subsequently Dundalk port at Baltimore. Ports America has seamlessly integrated it's Navis Express application for Terminal operations and it's proprietary business applications for Container operations with EDISPHERE for EDI messages 301, 309, 310, 315, 322, 810 and WESTIM. 
Ports America is now in the process of integrating it's other ports and also US Customs with EDISPHERE.                                   
About Ports America
Ports America, Inc. is the leading independent stevedore on the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts, with operations in 24 ports and terminals from Maine to Texas. With a highly skilled and trained labor force, Ports America has the experience and expertise to manage all types of cargo handling. Ports America has operations ranging from pure container terminals, including the most technologically enhanced terminal on the U.S. East Coast, Port Newark Container Terminal,  to 'under the hook stevedoring'. Operations also include bulk and break-bulk facilities, world class cruise terminals, quality care RoRo handling and intermodal facilities. For further information, please visit Ports America at www.portsamerica.com. 

About EDISPHERE Software
EDISPHERE Software is leading developer of innovative Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) products for automating supply chain by seamlessly integrating customer's internal business application with external partners. Based out of India; it's high-quality R&D and low-cost support provides unbeatable value to it's customers in US, UK, Singapore, Hong Kong and South Africa. For further information, please visit EDISPHERE Software at www.edisphere.com.