Faps Inc.

FAPS Incorporated, originally known as Foreign Automotive Preparation Service, is a third generation company established in Port Newark in 1956 by John A. LoBue. The pre-delivery company has been providing the Automotive Industry Import/Export preparation services for over 56 years within the Port of New York & New Jersey. FAPS, Inc. is also a Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) approved throughout its entire highly secured facility and employs over 200 skilled personnel. Manufacturing clients include global shippers and allied companies such as; Ford Motor Company, General Motors Corporation, Chrysler, Honda, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Infiniti, Volvo, Toyota, Ferrari, Maserati, Alfa Romeo. These Import and Export Accounts combined with a vibrant RoRo & POV trade arrive at and depart from their over 100 acre terminal complex by way of the world's leading marine car carriers (PCC/PCTC) such as Wallenius-Wilhelmsen Lines, Mitsui OSK, NYK Line, K-Line, EUKOR, Hoegh, Atlantic Container Lines, Bermuda Container Lines and CSAV. Terminal activities include over 250 vessel arrivals annually.

Port Newark is located in the midst of the largest and most affluent consumer marketplace in North America, and provides automotive importers with immediate access to more than 18 million consumers. With its excellent highway network and intermodal connections to inland markets, the port provides one-day access to over 75 million consumers from Virginia to Maine, as well as Eastern Canada. Within two days transport from the port, we can reach markets as far west as Chicago. The ability of Automotive Importers to reach their major markets more quickly and cost effectively than any other port of entry in the nation is also why the port is the home to manufacturer pre-delivery subsidiaries Toyota, Lexus, and , BMW. The Port is not only cost competitive as measured by significant inland freight cost savings to the market, but also offers cost competitive port processing services and the highest quality of deep-sea auto stevedores and warehousing labor provided by the International Longshoreman's Association. Over the years, FAPS, Inc. Customers have relied on their volume production capability and high quality standards derived from their varied customers and depth of highly-skilled and cross trained workforce.

Services for new finished Import & Export vehicles include; Pre-delivery inspections, accessorization, body- repair, paint refinishing, export homologation, modification, global certification standards and fleet reconditioning. Vehicle processing is performed in over 700,000 square feet of pre-delivery centers. FAPS, Inc. coordinates the inland distribution with many major car hauling truck transportation companies via EDI and operates a 48 rail car spot capacity auto rail facility (MODART) within the Conrail shared asset area for both CSXT and Norfolk Southern railroad companies. FAPS, Inc. operation is regarded as the Industries benchmark auto-processing facility in North America and can handle over 500 thousand (500,000) vehicles annually. FAPS, Inc. utilizes the latest IS technology operating in a real time RF environment which effectively manages inventory, cargo releases, services and electronic invoicing. FAPS, Inc. also specializes in vehicle containerization.

History:

The company origins began with Agostino Joseph LoBue, a skilled iron and metal working craftsman who immigrated to America from Italy in 1917 was the original family member who in 1923 founded, owned and operated a business as an independent entrepreneur of Automobile Sales and Service.

Learning the craft and trade from his father, John Anthony LoBue later founded Foreign Auto Preparation Service, Inc., relocating to Port Newark in 1956 and incorporating as FAPS, Inc. in 1959 is considered a pioneer in Automotive Pre-delivery Service (Mechanical, Transit Body Repair, Refinishing, Assembly and Modifications), in North America. He is credited with originating the port side service facility company concept to address the growing volume preparation needs of manufacturers distributing shipments of automobiles to the USA for sale as an inexpensive small and "never needs fuel" imported second line of automotive product to front line full size US manufactured products. He established this industries production line methodology similar to the "factory line" handling, from arrival survey, assurance inspection, mechanical, body repair to accessorization for acceptable dealer delivery and federal certification in the port upon arrival.

Today the proud tradition of delivering "Best In Class Service" is carried on by John LoBue's two sons, August and Gary LoBue, who maintain the company ownership and have continued to expand the facility, scope of services, sales and diversification. Within the last decade, the business volume has more than doubled and shows promise of continued growth through their inherited vision of the future and leadership they both bring. Like their father and grandfather before them, August and Gary have contributed greatly to the welfare of their employees and the port community as well as through civic actions most exemplified by completing the construction started by John LoBue of the Stella Maris Chapel in Port Newark.

This company's port side automotive pre-delivery service came into being as the result of overseas imports arriving in increasingly larger quantities and requiring warehousing facilities to sort and manage inventories, accessorize and repair to factory fresh condition prior to dealer delivery. Foreign Auto Preparation Service, today known as FAPS, INC. was established in answer to that need in 1956 at Port Newark as the first service company of its kind in North America derived from earlier service operations in Long Island City, N.Y. specializing in the "Foreign Car."