Turn TERMPoint into an API

What you can build on TERMPoint

• Check the Import Watchlist

  Build this

  Reads the Watchlist page: each import container's Appt Ready flag, Freight, Customs and Demurrage status, and the expanded container details.

  Takes

  Container IDs (optional)

  Returns

  Container ID, appt ready, freight, customs, demurrage, shipping line, equipment size, bill of lading, yard location, good thru, discharge date

• Get my appointments

  Build this

  Runs Advanced Search on My Appointments for a date range and reads each appointment with its slot, driver, truck, type and status.

  Takes

  From date, to date, appointment status (optional), driver (optional)

  Returns

  Appointment number, slot, driver, truck, type, container ID, cargo ref, size, own chassis, status, alert

• Check appointment availability

  Build this

  Uses Appointment available? on My Dashboard to read the slot availability for each shift of a date you choose.

  Takes

  Date

  Returns

  Date, shift, slot, available

• Schedule an import pickup

  Build this

  Opens Schedule an Appointment, picks Import Pickup, enters the container, chooses date, slot, driver, truck and chassis, and selects Schedule Appointment.

  Takes

  Container ID, date, slot, driver, truck, own chassis, chassis number (optional)

  Returns

  Appointment number, date, slot, container ID, equipment size, cargo ref, status, messages

Automate TERMPoint with a workflow

A workflow runs your methods as one process, with nobody at the screen. A schedule or a call from your own system starts it, the steps run in order, and the result arrives in your inbox or in the systems you already use.

• Import Watchlist check before dispatch

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 6:00

  Step 1

  Check the Import Watchlist for all watched containers.

  Step 2

  Keep the containers whose Appt Ready, Customs, Freight or Demurrage status changed since the last run.

  Step 3

  Email you the list with container ID, status columns, yard location and Good Thru date.

• Tomorrow's tentative appointments and missing drivers

  Build this

  Starts

  Every day at 15:00

  Step 1

  Get My Appointments for tomorrow.

  Step 2

  Keep the ones in Tentative status or with no driver assigned.

  Step 3

  Post each one, with its alert message, to your dispatch system's webhook.

• Open appointment slots for a date your dispatcher picks

  Build this

  Starts

  When your dispatch system calls the workflow's webhook with a date

  Step 1

  Check appointment availability for that date.

  Step 2

  Keep the slots that still have room.

  Step 3

  Post the open shifts and slots back to your dispatch system's webhook.

You can run a workflow by hand on every plan, Free included. Schedules and webhook triggers come with the paid plans, from $29 a month.

Once built, one call from your code

Once you have built a method, it is one POST to /v1/runs from your backend, or a tool an AI agent calls over MCP. This is what “Check the Import Watchlist” would look like.

curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "termpoint.apmterminals.com/get_import_watchlist",
    "input": {
      "container_ids": [
        "GLBU2290417",
        "NWDU5183320"
      ]
    }
  }'

{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "containers": [
      {
        "container_id": "GLBU2290417",
        "appt_ready": true,
        "freight": "RELEASE",
        "customs": "RELEASE",
        "demurrage": "YES",
        "shipping_line": "NORTHWIND",
        "equip_size": "40GP96",
        "bill_of_lading": "NWDL7731042",
        "yard_location": "Yard Grounded",
        "good_thru": "2026-11-16",
        "discharge_date": "2026-11-11"
      }
    ],
    "count": 1
  }
}

An example with invented data, not a ready-made endpoint. The method exists in your organization once you build it, and its name, inputs and fields follow your request.

TERMPoint’s own options

APM Terminals offers a Truck Appointment API, free of charge, that views slots and creates, lists, updates, cancels and merges appointments. It is live at Gothenburg, Los Angeles, Mobile, Port Elizabeth and Vado Ligure, and every end user must be registered in TERMPoint. Container availability is sold separately through the API store in prepaid credits after a 90-day trial.

Read on November 12, 2026: Truck Appointment API, API store pricing, Truck Appointment System, Los Angeles.

Signing in to TERMPoint

TERMPoint signs users in with a User Id and password, and Forgot Login/Pwd sends the User Id to the administrator or a temporary password to you. The first user to register becomes the trucking company's Administrator and adds the others under Users and Groups. With Fous you sign in once through TERMPoint's own sign-in with your own login: it is sealed with AES-256, and an expired session is signed back in.

Worth knowing

Tentative is not the same as Confirmed

After submission an appointment is Confirmed, Tentative or Invalid. A Tentative one may not clear the gate, and Invalid import pickups are added to the Import Watchlist.

A driver is needed before the start

At Port Elizabeth the driver must be added at least one hour before the start of a confirmed appointment, or the appointment is cancelled.

Early or late trucks are turned away

In Los Angeles drivers arriving early or late are turned away, and a missed import appointment cannot be changed once its time has passed. Import appointments open only after discharge.

Rules differ by terminal

Merge limits and dual-transaction rules differ. Port Elizabeth merges up to 2 x 20' pickups and 2 x 20' drop-offs; Los Angeles needs the same size type for a dual transaction.

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