Know your vessel's actual arrival before your carrier publishes a revision.
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Challenges
- Cargo on delayed vessels disrupts just-in-time production schedules and triggers demurrage and detention charges — based on carrier ETA data that already lags reality.
- Safety stock and pickup decisions are made on stale carrier milestones, with no independent view of terminal congestion or rollover risk.
Solutions
- Predictive ETAs derived from live vessel position, terminal congestion, and 13+ years of historical berth behaviour — updated before the carrier publishes a change.
- Identify rollover events and port congestion build-up while options to rebook, redirect, or adjust free-time windows are still open.
Challenges
- Routing recommendations rest on carrier schedules and anecdote, not independent terminal performance data.
- When a vessel is delayed at a congested terminal, your shipper client finds out before you do — eroding the trust you compete on.
Solutions
- Live, carrier-independent arrival times at terminal level, updated in minutes.
- Avoid booking vessels already showing delay signals before departure. Turn early visibility into a commercial differentiator that justifies your margin against rate-only competition.
Challenges
- Fragmented carrier portals, emails, and EDI feeds force manual reconciliation of conflicting updates across slot buyers, sub-contractors, and internal systems.
- Via port and transshipment calls are frequently omitted from carrier updates, creating blind spots across complex multi-leg voyages.
Solutions
- A single unified platform — web and DCSA-compliant API — with every container milestone event including all via ports and transshipment calls.
- Operations, planning, and customer-facing teams act on the same verified data, without manual reconciliation.
Challenges
- Building independent ocean visibility in-house requires AIS infrastructure, carrier schedule reconciliation, and ML modelling across years of berth behaviour data.
- Per-container pricing models make it commercially unviable to scale tracking coverage across your full customer base.
Solutions
- Embed predictive, terminal-level container tracking via DCSA-compliant API without building it yourself.
- Fixed annual subscription — no per-container fees, no data caps. Scale from tens of thousands to millions of containers tracked without a pricing barrier.
“We had no real-time visibility on our container shipments. Now, we can proactively manage disruptions before they impact production.”
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FAQ
Kpler pulls and reconciles multiple carrier schedules against live AIS vessel behaviour and historical berth data. The system resolves conflicting route realities — port skips, added calls, schedule gaps — into a single most-likely route, matching or beating carrier ETAs 95% of the time. Updates arrive in minutes, not hours.
By surfacing rollover events and congestion build-up at terminal level before they crystallise into D&D charges. Early ETA shifts give procurement and operations teams the window to adjust free-time window management, rebook, or reroute cargo while options are still available — not after the clock has started.
Carrier milestones reflect what shipping lines choose to publish, which lags reality during congestion events, port skips, and vessel bunching. Container Tracking derives every ETA independently from AIS vessel position, port call data, and terminal congestion — giving a carrier-agnostic view that can be used to anticipate, challenge, and act ahead of carrier updates.
Every container milestone across the voyage: loading, vessel departure, all transshipment via ports, terminal arrival at berth, berth departure at each port call, and final discharge. Carrier updates frequently omit via port terminal details; Container Tracking covers every unannounced stop and terminal call, ensuring continuous visibility even when carrier feeds are silent.
Yes. DCSA compliance makes integration into TMS, ERP, and digital control towers straightforward, reducing implementation overhead regardless of your existing tech stack.
Fixed annual subscription — no per-container fees, no data caps. The same rate applies whether you are tracking tens of thousands or millions of containers annually. GEODIS Americas scaled from 175,000 to over 1 million containers tracked per year without a pricing barrier.
