Container documentation, built by people who run depots.
ConPDS ApS is a Danish software company building container documentation infrastructure — mobile inspection, on-premise OCR, automated gate operations — used by depots, reefer service facilities, leasing companies, and shipping lines across Europe, Africa, Australia and the Middle East. In production since 2013. We are independent, profitable, and not for sale.
Why we built ConPDS
In 2013, container inspection documentation was either paper, WhatsApp, or a generic photo app no-one trusted six months later. The depot carried the cost of every claim it could not prove and paid for every damage it could not prove was pre-existing. The infrastructure to do it properly did not exist.
We built the first version of ConPDS Checker because the alternative — informal photo handling spread across phones and chat threads — was failing on the only test that matters: can you find the right photo, of the right container, six months after the truck left the gate, and use it to defend a real claim?
The product stayed in production with a small set of depots until 2015, when the business began operating as the Danish limited company ConPDS ApS and the customer base expanded across Europe. Since then we have added ConPDS Tracker for on-premise container number OCR and ConPDS Autogate for end-to-end gate automation — the same evidence philosophy applied to two more workflows.
The founder
ConPDS is founded and led by Morten Steen Søndergaard — the same person who wrote the first version of Checker in 2013 and who still answers the phone today.
Morten has worked in IT consulting since 1995 and has run his own consultancy, ITX, since 2002 — serving customers including APM Terminals, Danfoss, and a long list of Danish municipalities and enterprises. The first ConPDS product grew out of that consulting work: a depot needed inspection photos linked to validated container numbers, nothing on the market did it properly, so he built it. In 2015 the product became its own Danish limited company, ConPDS ApS, which he owns and manages.
That continuity is deliberate. The person who designed the OCR engine, the evidence model, and the integration architecture is the person customers negotiate with, escalate to, and meet at industry events like Intermodal Europe. There is no investor board pushing a pivot and no acquisition exit planned — which is why we can commit to the long-term roadmap described below.
What we build
Three products, deployed together or independently. Every photo, gate event, and OCR read is linked to a validated container number. Checker is a fully hosted SaaS subscription. Tracker and Autogate run on hardware on-premises.
ConPDS Checker
Fully hosted SaaS subscription for mobile inspection and repair photo documentation, linked to validated container numbers via ISO 6346 OCR. Works offline; integrates with EOS, DepotMaster, AEMS, IMARS, and custom APIs.
Explore ConPDS Checker →ConPDS Tracker
On-premise GPU-powered OCR that reads container numbers from any RTSP-compatible IP camera and publishes results in open JSON via MQTT. No proprietary lock-in.
Explore ConPDS Tracker →ConPDS Autogate
On-premise automated container gate system — driver-led kiosk flow, OCR validation, and DepotMaster REST integration for reservation matching and barrier control. Runs on hardware at the site.
Explore ConPDS Autogate →Company facts
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Working with ConPDS
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How we work
Checker is a fully hosted SaaS platform that customers subscribe to. Tracker and Autogate run on hardware on-premises.
That split is deliberate. Inspection evidence is a multi-site yard-and-office workflow that belongs in a hosted subscription. Camera OCR and gate automation belong next to the cameras and barriers. Container documentation is still operational infrastructure, not marketing software. That changes the way we make decisions:
Customers across Europe, Africa, Australia & the Middle East
Container depots, reefer service facilities, wash stations, leasing companies, and shipping lines — all using ConPDS in daily production.
Read full operational stories at Customer Success Stories or contact us about a specific deployment.
Talk to the people who built this
Procurement question, integration question, deployment-scoping question — you'll be answered by an engineer who actually wrote the relevant code, usually within a business day.