China Shipping Container Tracking

In order to understand how China shipping container tracking works, first you must grab a few basic concepts.

Shipping container cargo may be tracked basically by 3 parameters:

A. By bill of landing

You need to enter the numeric part of your APL bill of landing. That will be a number of 7 or 9 digits. By adding a homeport ID you may get more details about the shipment.

Here's a list of top ten Chinese sea port codes:

• HKHKG - Hong Kong
• CNSHA - Shanghai
• CNCAN - Guangzhou
• CNSZX - Shenzhen
• CNNGB - Ningbo
• CNTAO - Qingdao
• CNLYG - Lianyungang
• CNTSN - Tianjin
• CNXMN - Xiamen
• CNDLC - Dalian

For China shipping container tracking in other ports, you can find the codes here.

B. By vessel

You can track your chinese shipping container cargo by tracking the vessel it is on. You'll need the boat name (or at least part of it) and also the homeport ID. You'll get schedule for the next 10 stops as well as details about the vessel: age, size, country, owner etc.

• ACL
• Alianca
• ANL
• APL
• Arkas
• Atlanticargo
• Balaji Shipping
• Beacon Intermodal
• Blue Sky
• Bridgehead
• CAI
• Carlisle Leasing
• CCNI
• CHINA SHIPPING
• CMA CGM
• CNC Line
• COSCO
• Cronos
• Crowley
• CSAV NORASIA
• DAL
• Delmas
• Dong Fang International Investment
• Dongnama
• Emirates Shipping Line
• EVERGREEN
• Florens container services
• GESeaCo
• GOLD
• Gold Star Line
• Grimaldi
• GVC
• Hamburg Sud
• Hanjin Shipping
• HAPAG (HL)
• Heung-A Shipping
• HYUNDAI
• IRISL
• ITALIA MARITTIMA
• K-LINE
• Korea Marine Transport
• Libra
• Linea Messina
• MAERSK
• MAG shipping
• Marfret
• Matson
• MOL
• MSC

• Namsung
• NSCSA
• NYK Line
• OOCL
• OTAL
• Pacific Direct Line
• PIL
• Pollux & Castor
• RCL
• Royal Arctic
• Safmarine
• SCI
• Seaboard Marine
• SeaCastle Inc, (Interpool)
• Sea Star Line
• SENATOR LINES
• Sinokor Merchant Marine
• SITC
• Sofrana Unilines
• Star Shipping
• TAL International
• Tarros
• Textainer
• Triton Container
• UES
• United Arab Shipping
• Wan Hai Lines
• Waterfront Container
• YANG MING YML
• ZIM

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C. By container

China shipping container tracking by container requires the respective container number. A standard container number is made of a 4 letters code designating the company that owns the container (not always the one that transport it), a 6 digits number (the serial) and 1 digit (checkdigit, used to avoid mistypes). For example, UDVB 102030 9. If you enter also the homeport ID, you'll usually get more details.

China shipping container tracking gets a little trickier if the container owner is a leasing company since they usually don't do the shipping themselves. In this case you should first check the leasing company website and find the transport company for the shipping container in case. Once you had found it, you should search for your container using the transporter's name.