Global Container Tracking API
Access the best in class data available - instantly and on demand, at your convenience.
Automated container tracking
Track any shipping container via a single API. Get a complete set of carrier milestones including data from ocean and rail terminals.
Reliable and real-time
Benefit from 99.5% API uptime, low latency, and guaranteed freshness of shipping container data.
Complete terminal data
Dependable data on terminal availability including holds, fees, and Last Free Day, to enhance your operations.
Cost-effective pricing
Get started with a free Developer Key for tracking up to 100 containers.
A comprehensive container tracking API
We can track 100% of carriers that touch North America and include data from terminals, vessel AIS, and rail for complete monitoring and insights into activities.
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Detailed shipment manifest data
Access extensive data including ports of lading/unlading, shipping line details, final destinations, vessels, voyages, and container numbers.
Container milestones
Keep track of all critical milestones in your container shipment journey including empty-out, full-in, vessel loaded, vessel discharged, vessel arrived, full out, empty returned and more.
In-depth terminal information
Gain insights into terminal specifics such as FIRMS code, Last Free Day, Holds, Fees, Assessorials required, Yard Location, pickup status, etc.
Industry leaders trust our
container shipment tracking API
“Terminal49’s API gives us the visibility data we need in a modern, developer-friendly package. There are other APIs out there, but they often lack timely and accurate data and don’t clean or normalize anything, which makes the results hard to work with.”
CHRISTOPHER WALL
COO, ZEUS LOGISTICS
“Experienced developers can build a complete container tracking app with only a few hours of coding... and with Chain.io and Terminal49, companies without coding resources can feed updates into their TMS without any code at all.”
BRIAN GLICK
CEO, CHAIN.IO
Effortless data access and integration
Terminal49's push-based API and DataSyncservices allow for streamlined data integration and retrieval
Developer Portal and tools
Our Developer Portal helps you test, monitor and debug your code, keeping track of all the requests you've made, webhooks you've registered, and notifications we've sent.
Push-based API using Webhooks
Our push-based API updates your webhooks when container statuses change, including milestones, ETAs, and new data.
Standardized schema for enhanced data
Terminal49's API offers clean, standardized JSON data for supporting all US terminals and major steamship lines in one codebase.
Comprehensive API documentation
Our API docs facilitate a quick start with test requests and code samples for Python, Ruby, Node, and more.
