Ocean Freight Visibility API
Track your ocean container shipments, from departure to arrival, through the containers’ entire journey. Easily integrate Windward’s insights into your existing tracking systems and receive real-time updates on a shipment’s ETA, live location, predictive risk of delay, and location-based notifications on departures and arrivals.
Tracking can be executed by actively searching for specific containers of interest, or by customizing automatic push notifications that will update regarding changes to the shipments in question – directly into your existing workflows.
Which APIs are needed?
Shipment dynamic map – real-time visualization of your tracked shipments, regardless of the carrier, throughout the entire voyage, including transshipments.
Maritime AI™ ETA Prediction and full shipment data – enrich your data with the most accurate AI-driven ETA prediction, as well as 75+ data fields, including ATD and ATA timestamps based on geofencing, the carrier’s most updated ETA, and more.
Carrier data – automatically receive full carrier details for all supported carriers in the system, including SCAC, short name, long name, and SCAC aliases.
Vessel ETA – monitor predefined lists of vessels for their current ETA and transmitted destination.
Customized Data Filed- manage by exception using internally shipment data, including PO number, shipper and consignee information, team member in charge, and more.
Ocean Freight Visibility Case Study
A digital freight forwarding solution provider – that offers provisioning of quotations, bookings, and a centralized paperwork solution – partnered with Windward to enhance their platform with visibility and predictability of their shipments for all users. The platform, used as a whitelabel application, now offers freight forwarders worldwide the opportunity to go digital and benefit from Maritime AI™.