In order to meet rising customer expectations and stay ahead of the competition, APA sought to enrich the overall port operation services by moving to a paperless environment and providing a valuable and relevant solution that completely restructures the manual process of documents exchange between port community members. Automation aimed at and achieved the optimization of the Port Management Processes from decreasing the vessel and cargo turn-around time to making available the necessary real time data for yard operations and performing all statistical and data analysis for decision makers.