The leader in container port software is Navis, which is owned by Zebra Enterprise Solutions, which services over 400 ports worldwide. Cosmos was started by an Antwerp services company. Carrix is the parent company of SSA Marine and Tideworks Technology. SSA Marine is the largest U.S. owned, and privately held, marine terminal operator in the world, with over 120 marine and rail operations worldwide, including 11 container terminals in LA/Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle, Panama, Mexico and Chile. Tideworks has focused more traditionally on truck warehousing and is less interesting to terminal operators than competitors like Navis.
Both Piraeus Port Authority and APM Terminals in Rotterdam use Navis software systems. Latest Navis SPARCS N4 software has integrated two previously separate systems. APM Terminals, which is one of the largest container port terminal operators in the world has prepared, a comparative report on software vendors for external use with a look into the future with a five-year horizon.