Container Tracking allows to determine the current position of a given container on the World Map. To track the location of the container, just specify bill of lading, container, booking number.

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General information

Container Tracking API is organized around REST.
Our API has predictable resource-oriented URLs, accepts form-encoded request bodies, returns JSON-encoded responses, and uses standard HTTP response codes, authentication, and verbs.

API endpoint#

1https://tracking.searates.com

All endpoints are only accessible via HTTPS and are located at tracking.searates.com

Tracking by container

[ deprecated ]

get/apiv2

Get tracking information by container number. This operation has been marked as deprecated. Use GET /tracking

An API key is a token that you provide when making API calls. Include the token in a query parameter called api_key

Example: ?api_key=123

Headers

Content-Typeapplication/json

Query Parameters

api_keyREQUIREDstring
Your api key.

If you do not have an api key - contact us to purchase a subscription.
containerREQUIREDstring
Container number
sealineREQUIREDinteger
Available Sealines:

0 - Autodetect

1 - Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC)

2 - Arkas

4 - Hamburg Sud

5 - COSCO

6 - Evergreen

7 - Hapag-Lloyd

10 - Maersk

13 - ZIM

14 - American President Lines (APL)

15 - CMA CGM

17 - Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL)

18 - Yang Ming

69 - Turkon

88 - Ocean Network Express (ONE)

97 - Wan Hai

104 - Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM)

111 - Safmarine

112 - Sealand

124 - Sinokor
Allowed values:0124567101314151718698897104111112124
Default:0

Response example

1{
2  "status": "SUCCESS",
3  "points": [
4    {
5      "id": 3,
6      "name": "Xiamen",
7      "lat": 24.47979,
8      "lng": 118.08187,
9      "country": "CN",
10      "code5": "CNXMG",
11      "distTo": null,
12      "pathTo": [],
13      "events": [
14        {
15          "date": 1684934700,
16          "location": 3,
17          "description": "Gate out empty",
18          "type": 4,
19          "vessel": null,
20          "voyage": null,
21          "imo": null,
22          "mmsi": null,
23          "call_sign": null,
24          "flag": null,
25          "descr": null,
26          "planner": false
27        },
28        {
29          "date": 1684953840,
30          "location": 3,
31          "description": "Arrival in",
32          "type": 4,
33          "vessel": null,
34          "voyage": null,
35          "imo": null,
36          "mmsi": null,
37          "call_sign": null,
38          "flag": null,
39          "descr": null,
40          "planner": false
41        },
42        {
43          "date": 1685626860,
44          "location": 3,
45          "description": "Loaded",
46          "type": 3,
47          "vessel": "YM WIDTH",
48          "voyage": "029E",
49          "imo": 9708447,
50          "mmsi": 477129300,
51          "call_sign": "VRPE5",
52          "flag": "HK",
53          "descr": null,
54          "planner": false
55        },
56        {
57          "date": 1685628900,
58          "location": 3,
59          "description": "Vessel departed",
60          "type": 3,
61          "vessel": "YM WIDTH",
62          "voyage": "029E",
63          "imo": 9708447,
64          "mmsi": 477129300,
65          "call_sign": "VRPE5",
66          "flag": "HK",
67          "descr": null,
68          "planner": false
69        }
70      ]
71    },
72    {
73      "id": 1,
74      "name": "Savannah",
75      "lat": 32.08354,
76      "lng": -81.09983,
77      "country": "US",
78      "code5": "USSAV",
79      "distTo": 20189.667472999998,
80      "pathTo": [
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83          118.08186999999998
84        ],
85        [
86          24.49113405,
87          118.16722284999997
88        ],
89        [
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91          118.56553615000001
92        ],
93        [
94          24.555417,
95          118.650889
96        ],
97        [
98          24.667171049999997,
99          119.08913065000002
100        ],
101        [
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103          121.13425834999998
104        ],
105        [
106          25.300444,
107          121.57249999999999
108        ],
109        [
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111          145.20312079999997
112        ],
113        [
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115          -104.5206488
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117        [
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121        [
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125        [
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133        [
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137        [
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141        [
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143          -79.99247200000002
144        ],
145        [
146          7.73054345,
147          -79.92549055
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149        [
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153        [
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157        [
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161        [
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165        [
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169        [
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172        ],
173        [
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175          -75.0072629
176        ],
177        [
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180        ],
181        [
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185        [
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193        [
194          32.08354,
195          -81.09983
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197      ],
198      "events": [
199        {
200          "date": 1689265800,
201          "location": 1,
202          "description": "Vessel arrival",
203          "type": 3,
204          "vessel": "YM WIDTH",
205          "voyage": "029E",
206          "imo": 9708447,
207          "mmsi": 477129300,
208          "call_sign": "VRPE5",
209          "flag": "HK",
210          "descr": null,
211          "planner": false
212        },
213        {
214          "date": 1689265801,
215          "location": 1,
216          "description": "Departure from",
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218          "vessel": null,
219          "voyage": null,
220          "imo": null,
221          "mmsi": null,
222          "call_sign": null,
223          "flag": null,
224          "descr": null,
225          "planner": false
226        }
227      ]
228    },
229    {
230      "id": 2,
231      "name": "Byron",
232      "lat": 32.65376,
233      "lng": -83.75963,
234      "country": "US",
235      "code5": "USBY8",
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241        ],
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250        [
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266        [
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270        [
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274        [
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286      ],
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291          "description": "Arrival in",
292          "type": 4,
293          "vessel": null,
294          "voyage": null,
295          "imo": null,
296          "mmsi": null,
297          "call_sign": null,
298          "flag": null,
299          "descr": null,
300          "planner": false
301        }
302      ]
303    }
304  ],
305  "sealine": 7,
306  "description": null,
307  "trackingID": null,
308  "containers": [],
309  "eta": 1689265800,
310  "lastContainerCord": {
311    "lat": 19.49263294029332,
312    "lng": 172.13661893910046
313  }
314}

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Introduction

Container Tracking API

version 2 [deprecated]