# Container Tracking API Overview

Get the industry’s most complete container visibility into your existing software systems or any spreadsheet.

## Complete Visibility Made Effortless

Subscribe to a container and receive complete updates from various sources including ocean carriers, terminals, and customs. All it takes is a Vizion API key and the specific container ID and carrier code. If the carrier is unknown, Automatic Carrier Identification can help.

## Technology Supporting Agility and Responsiveness

A REST API, Vizion API delivers JSON-encoded responses, with standard HTTP response codes and verbs for easy use. Webhooks enable your systems to respond fast to events in real-time, transforming your data management and increasing your agility.

### Drive Value Internally and Better Serve Your Customers

Our data gives you the flexibility to fulfill a wide range of needs—from reducing demurrage fees to better managing inventory. Use with leading software systems or develop a new application to integrate with.

- **Enhance** internal processes and efficiency
- **Reduce** data latency for downstream needs
- **Leverage** visibility to improve customer service

## Track by Master Bill of Lading or Container and Carrier Code

Remove the time-consuming processes of collecting data from each carrier. Monitor your shipments seamlessly using the master bill of lading, container and carrier code, or auto carrier identification if the carrier is unknown. Get a simplified tracking process to support your operations’ productivity.

## Hear What Our Customers Say

Enhancing your visibility saves time and money while streamlining your overall supply chain. But don’t just take our word for it. Hear from our valued customers about what Vizion has helped them accomplish.

**Krenar Komoni**  
CEO of Tive  
"When it comes to data integrity, the fundamentals matter more than anything. Vizion does the fundamentals right, making sure that when we give them a container ID, we can trust that ID is going to return the correct vessel and event information. We can depend on Vizion."

**Martin Schulze**  
CEO, BlueBox Systems  
"We are very pleased to have found in Vizion a partner with the same passion for pushing the digitalization of supply chains and providing high quality solutions."

**David Blinick**  
CEO, 3rdwave  
"Vizion standardizes these messages across all carriers making this job more straightforward for us. It is why our partnership is such a great achievement as we move forward."

**James Coombes**  
Co-Founder and CEO, Raft.ai  
"Partnering with Vizion, we bring an ‘X-ray’ into containers for forwarders as they seek to provide their shipping customers detailed insights into cargo visibility and status."

**Brian Glick**  
Founder and CEO, Chain.io  
"Visibility is a huge part of the future of the global supply chain. Vizion is an important addition to our suite of visibility solutions so that freight forwarders can take important steps toward embracing that future."

**Lucas Schorer**  
Co-Founder of Kestrel Insights  
"The Vizion team is always looking for ways to change how people approach visibility, and raising the bar on what customers can and should expect from their visibility platforms."

## Integrate Vizion’s Data with Leading ERPs and TMSs

Connect Vizion’s port and terminal events to these leading platforms, plus any ERP, TMS or other software system. Adding Vizion data to your existing systems empowers advanced visibility into a container’s journey.

## Stay Updated with Real-Time Vessel and Container Data

Vizion sends tracking data to your ERP, TMS or other software system, allowing you to understand a container’s movements in real-time and plan ahead for arrival at its destination. With this level of visibility, you can frictionlessly manage the movement from sea to land and beyond.

Many sources of container tracking data are not updated frequently enough to be useful. Vizion's container trace data lets you track in real-time and at a granular level, so you can monitor your shipments and prepare logistically for their arrival.

## Vizion’s Trade Insights

Real-time trade trends, research, and Vizion product updates.