Evaluating tracking providers
Vizion delivers carrier-direct container tracking data through a single API. Standardized milestones, predictive ETAs, and push-based webhooks, built for teams that run tracking inside their own systems. Paste a container number and see live data before you ever talk to us.
{
"container": "MSCU5285725",
"milestone": "Discharged at POD",
"location": "USLAX",
"timestamp": "2026-08-10T06:42:00Z",
"source": "carrier",
"eta_pod": "achieved"
}
If you are comparing providers, this is what to check. Here is where Vizion stands on each.
Subscribe a container, bill of lading, or booking number once. Receive structured status updates until the shipment closes out. One integration, every carrier.
Direct connections to major ocean carriers plus terminal and rail sources, so events reflect what the carrier reports rather than scraped estimates.
7,000 unique carrier events, normalized into 75 standardized milestones codified to DCSA guidance. Consistent across carriers, so your logic never special-cases a provider or maintains its own event dictionary.
Carrier ETAs alongside projected traces of the journey ahead, updated as new events arrive, so planning teams see changes before they become exceptions.
Push-based delivery the moment an event lands, with lifecycle notifications from subscription to shipment close-out. No polling loops, no missed updates.
Full API reference, sandbox keys, and integration guides at docs.vizionapi.com. Most teams post their first tracking subscription the same day.
Get notified when a shipment goes off plan: ETA and ETD changes, vessel changes. Problems surface to you instead of hiding in the feed.
Collection frequency adapts to each shipment's status. Approaching port, updates speed up; idle at sea, they ease off. Lower latency where it matters.
The BoxTrack app gives your operations team live tracking, dashboards, and alerts out of the box. Start there today, integrate the API when your roadmap is ready.
Switching a live tracking workflow is the part teams worry about. We have done it enough times to make it boring. Our team maps your current fields to Vizion's schema and runs both feeds in parallel until you are confident.
Plan your migrationWe review the fields and events your systems consume today and map each to its Vizion equivalent.
Subscribe a sample of live containers on Vizion while your existing feed keeps running. Compare outputs side by side.
Switch traffic when your team signs off. No forced deadline, no data gap between providers.
“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.”
Tell us what you track today and we will show you exactly what Vizion returns for your live shipments. No integration required.
Send us a handful of active container numbers and we will show you exactly what Vizion returns for them. No integration required to evaluate.