Dynamic Ocean®
Ocean Freight Tracking and Shipment Visibility

Transform your ocean shipment tracking with real-time ocean freight visibility, document management, collaboration and much more.

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Dynamic Ocean: Ocean Freight Tracking and Shipment Visibility

The Next Generation of Ocean Freight Visibility is Here

Go beyond just ocean shipment visibility and transform your entire international shipping operation. FourKites is the only solution that gives you end-to-end precision ocean freight tracking, the most accurate predictive ETAs plus powerful workflow, document management and collaboration, and can easily integrate with your existing TMS.

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Overcome Ocean Chaos with FourKites’ Real-Time Ocean Freight Visibility Platform

Modernize your international ocean shipping with the only solution to combine end-to-end sea freight visibility with next-level document, rate and booking management in a single, streamlined platform.

Multi-Modal Visibility

Get critical shipment information for every leg of your multi-modal journey with complete end-to-end visibility. FourKites combines real-time visibility with our predictive Dynamic ETAⓇ, giving shippers the most accurate tracking connecting every mode from port-to-door in your container’s journey.

Quality Data for Decision-Making

With FourKites, pair the best-in-class technology with high quality ocean data for more actionable decision-making during a time of ocean chaos. Not everyone in the supply chain is the same, so FourKites uses APIs, EDI and RPA technologies to connect your organization with your supply chain partners quickly and easily, allowing you to start seeing value within days.

Single Pane of Glass

FourKites is your one-stop solution for managing your ocean freight. We are the only solution on the market to go beyond traditional track and trace visibility with document management, rate and booking management and yard visibility in a single pane of glass.

End-to-End Ocean Freight Tracking

Track your ocean cargo with satellite precision from dock to delivery. Stay on top of any delays with Dynamic ETAs and alerts. Seamlessly track your end-to-end shipments across road, rail, ocean, air and yard in one unified platform giving you a single pane of glass for every shipment.

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Dynamic Ocean: Ocean Freight Tracking and Shipment Visibility
Dynamic Ocean: Ocean Freight Tracking and Shipment Visibility

A Secure Digital Hub for All Your Ocean Shipping Documents

Break away from disorganized, cluttered email inboxes and create a single, digital hub for all your international ocean shipping documents. With FourKites, you can easily define workflows, alerts and notifications based on your unique documentation requirements to ensure you have the right documentation, accurate, in-full, and on-time reducing fees, and ensuring your cargo never gets delayed.

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Slash Demurrage & Detention

Our exclusive demurrage and detention alerts, notifications and dashboards allow shippers to prioritize containers that will incur the most fees and optimize your exceptions accordingly.

Mitigate unnecessary demurrage and detention fees compounded by ocean disruptions, port congestion and delays. With FourKites, know exactly when your containers will incur or are approaching detention and take action to stop unnecessary fees in its tracks.

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Proactively Manage Exceptions

Proactively manage delayed or at-risk inventory with FourKites’ exception management suite.

Receive real-time alerts and notifications for ocean containers that are delayed and proactively make changes to minimize the delays and risks to your customer satisfaction. By using ocean visibility to manage ocean exceptions, Shippers and Freight Forwarders can lower transportation costs, reduce demurrage and detention costs, improved customer satisfaction, improved product availability and less spoilage.

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Seamless Ocean Container Booking Support

Secure container bookings with enhanced integrations to TMS and freight forwarders to provide up-to-date sailing schedules, carrier connectivity, and real-time notifications to rolled cargo.

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The Most Accurate Ocean Freight Tracking Data

Get the most reliable and accurate ocean data on the market. We track 98% of global ocean traffic with direct integrations via EDI 315 and APIs with major ocean carriers, real-time AIS data, terminal data, dray carrier integration and more.

Dynamic Ocean: Ocean Freight Tracking and Shipment Visibility

Workflows and Collaboration for Global Supply Chain Teams

With FourKites, never miss a task for your ocean shipments. Our real-time messaging tools are organized around shipments and workflow. Our automated templates set up and trigger tasks, set permissions, and prepare documents in alignment with the needs of your global teams.

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2022 Research: The Rapid Rise of Ocean Freight Visibility

New research conducted by The Journal of Commerce and FourKites explores how the use of global supply chain visibility technology has evolved since the onset of global disruptions caused by COVID-19. Learn why 76% of shippers are investing in ocean visibility in 2022.

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True End-to-End Multimodal Shipment Visibility

Seamlessly track your freight across road, rail, ocean, air and yard in one unified platform. With FourKites, you get the most advanced features for multimodal tracking giving you a single pane of glass and dynamic ETAs for every shipment.

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Gain Unprecedented Visibility into Your Ocean Shipments

We have your global ocean shipping covered, providing real-time visibility into the end-to-end journey of each shipment. With integrations covering 98% of global container traffic, global port/terminal coverage and a powerful workflow for managing international shipping rates, booking and documentation in a single platform.

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98%

Global Ocean Traffic

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Connect with the Largest Global Network of Shipment Carriers

Our predictive ETAs and real-time alerts ensure your supply chain runs smoothly — no matter what happens along the way.

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458,000+

Carriers

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Finally… a Real Solution for Accurate LTL Shipment Visibility

FourKites has tracked over 3.4 billion miles of LTL shipments to date, which means our ETAs are 6x more accurate than others in the industry.

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3.4

Billion Miles

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Track Your Rail and Intermodal Shipments with Ease

No matter if your freight is just traveling on rail, as part of a multimodal journey or tracking empty railcars, FourKites tracks your freight with the most accurate predictive ETAs and highest quality data on the market. Through integrations with 400+ railroads in North America and terminal activity data, FourKites connects the rail leg of a trip into the broader context of a load’s journey, offering a single source of truth for your load’s entire journey.

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100%

of rail tracking coverage in North America and Europe

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Gain Real-Time Updates on Your Critical Air Freight

No matter how many freight forwarders are handling your air freight, FourKites acts as a single pane of glass, so you can gain total visibility between airports and over-the-road to the final destination.

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17,000

Airports

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Eliminate Surprises with Your Parcel and Last Mile Shipments

The only solution that gives you detailed last-mile tracking and real-time status updates at an individual pallet and tote level.

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2M+

Monthly Parcel & Last Mile Loads

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Experience the Fastest Time to Value with Expert Implementation and Support Every Step of the Way

With a proven track record of the most successful global implementations, our expert teams support every step of your visibility journey. From carrier onboarding and user adoption to measuring the impact and your big-picture supply chain transformation strategy, our teams are there.

Leading Brands Choose FourKites for Their Ocean Freight Management

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FourKites Real-time Visibility Platform has Over 335 Verified Reviews

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“It Doesn’t Get Better Than FourKites”

FourKites has been awesome to work with. They’re very responsive and helpful with any questions or concerns. I can tell they genuinely care about the people and companies they work with and our partnership with FourKites is one that has grown over the last couple of years to be something great for both parties.

“FourKites – Best In Class For Load Tracking”

FourKites has been one of the easiest vendors to work with in terms of implementation and integration. This company really strives to deliver value to their customers. The UI for load tracking is well thought out and easy to use.

“Delighted By FourKites”

 True partnership with our company. FourKites personnel always goes beyond the expectations. For example, they have helped with us with not only the implementation of their platform within our organization but also with the “monetization” of benefits which could be realized in the future.

“Fourkites Improves Customer Communication & Confidence”

We’ve integrated Fourkites shipment information into our system to provide live shipment status to our customers, improving communication and customer relationships.

“Customer Driven, Continuously Improving”

Implementation team was professional and thorough and transition to ongoing support was smooth. FourKites is constantly developing and improving and is driven by customer input and feedback.

“Customer Centric Company With Quick Response Times”

They’re quick to respond to questions or problems. If they don’t have the solution, they’re quick to find someone who does and provides you with a resolution. I’ve noticed most (if not all) employees I’ve encountered have encouraging attitudes which helps keep my attitude positive.

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Ocean Freight Visibility Resources

Aug 06, 2021

Ocean Freight Shipping Trends for 2021: How Your Organization Can Adapt

2020 was a tumultuous year for supply chains, and 2021 certainly followed suit. As we head into 2022, we take a look back ...

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Ashley Klepach
Jun 10, 2021

How to Reduce Demurrage Charges and Detention Fees in International Container Shipping

It has been a trying year for those organizations involved in international shipping. There have been massive delays with port ...

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Ashley Klepach
Jul 15, 2021

The Value of True End-to-End Visibility

FourKites recently released a two-part series around international shipping. Most supply chain professionals are familiar with track and trace, and ...

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Ashley Klepach