CONTAINER TRACKING

Track every container across every carrier.

Beacon brings container milestones and ETAs from all your carriers and forwarders into one view. Your team stops checking carrier portals and starts acting on delays.

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Beacon Live Overview: in-transit shipments, on-time arrivals and delays across every carrier on one mapBeacon Timing and Delays report: container deviation from ETA by month, carrier and forwarderBeacon live board with 148 shipments tracked and updates pushed to warehouse, customers and ops

Every container, every carrier, one view.

One view, whatever the carrier

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Carrier portals and forwarder spreadsheets each show a slice of your shipments, and none of them match. Beacon tracks containers across 160+ ocean carriers and lays them in one table you can filter, so you can see the whole picture in one place.

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See each container from Gate in Full to Gate out Full, with estimates and actuals side by side where they exist. Transshipments are tracked through intermediary ports, and port and vessel details sit alongside. When an ETA moves, you see it as it happens.

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Your team is alerted when a milestone changes, so you can act while there is still time. See where avoidable demurrage and detention (D&D) is costing you money. Live Boards let colleagues, suppliers and customers see the shipments that matter to them, with no email chains.

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Flow diagram: freight invoices, rate cards, freight contracts, shipment data and milestones connected into one platform

Flow diagram: freight invoices, rate cards, freight contracts, shipment data and milestones connected into one platform. Beacon returns a dashboard and a recommendation in chat, and each decision feeds back into Beacon

  • Freight Invoices
  • Rate Cards
  • Freight Contracts
  • Shipment Data
  • Milestones
YOUR EXISTING SYSTEMS

Connect everything. Replace nothing.

Beacon works on top of the systems you already run, so there is no rip and replace project. Upload your purchase orders, container numbers and documents, or connect your data, and tracking starts from what you have.

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Frequently asked questions

What is container tracking?

Container tracking follows a shipping container from origin to destination using milestone updates from carriers, ports and terminals. It tells you where a container is, when it is expected to arrive and whether anything has changed. Beacon collects those updates from every carrier you use and shows them in one place.
Key milestones include Gate in Full, Loaded at POL, Departure from POL, Arrival at POD, Discharged at POD and Gate out Full. For many milestones you see both estimates and actuals. Further milestones let you follow transshipments through intermediary ports, and details of the ports and vessels your containers are travelling through are also available.
Your container number is on the bill of lading. It is usually also in the shipping confirmation email and in other documents from the sender or your freight forwarder.
Yes. That is the point of Beacon. Containers from different carriers and forwarders appear in one table, with the same milestones and ETAs for each, so you do not need to visit each carrier's portal.
No. Beacon works on top of the systems you already use. You can upload purchase orders, container numbers and documents, or connect your data, and tracking starts from there.

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