The Booking tracking section of the Portcast Web Application is an alternative way of browsing and tracking your uploaded containers. While the Container section displays all containers irrespective of their Booking/BL number, the Booking view allows you to view your containers aggregated by Booking or Bill of Lading. This allows a quicker view on the global status of your shipments, without having to browse containers individually.

In this guide we will dive into how to use the list table view of bookings to analyze, filter and search your Bookings or Bills of Lading and the underlying containers. Additionally, you can refer to the guide on Using the Booking Single view to understand how to drill-down into a specific Booking.

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Please note: in some edge cases, BL/Bookings can include fractured information due to multiple voyages or exceptional situations. The Booking table can present some limitations in displaying those edge cases. When in doubt, refer to the single booking view for more granular and detailed information.

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Understanding the Booking table view information

The Booking section can be accessed by going into the side navigation in the Portcast Web Application, and clicking on ‘Tracking’, then ‘Booking’.

The table view displayed works very similarly to the Container table view; we display a paginated view of all the Bookings or Bills of Lading (BL) previously uploaded, either via API or Web Application, and include provisional information on the underlying containers:

Example of contents inside the Bookings table view. Note the default columns displayed and the ‘active’ filter applied by default. Also note that the ETA, ETD, status, carrier/vessel and journey columns will be those of the first container inside the BL/Booking.

The main columns displayed include:

• Booking No: The booking or BL number used during upload. Clicking on the toggle arrow will open an accordion containing a small sample of containers included in the Booking or BL, and the possibility of going into the Booking single view. Clicking on the actual BL/Booking number will also lead you into the Booking detail page.
• Containers: A count of containers included on the BL/Booking. These will be populated either via individual container upload, or via BL/Booking upload (which will pull all available Containers associated with that specific BL/Booking).
• ETA: The Predicted and Initial Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) (or actual arrival for Arrived containers) of the first container on the list of underlying containers for the BL/Booking; this will not show the ETA of every container under that BL/Booking; please refer to the single booking view for more granular information of multi-voyage BL/Bookings.
• ETD: The initial Estimated Time of Departure (ETD) and Actual Time of Departure (ATD) for the first container under the BL/Booking. this will not show the ETD/ATD of every container under that BL/Booking; please refer to the single booking view for more granular information of multi-voyage BL/Bookings.
• Status: The status of the first container inside the BL/Booking, as well as the On-time/delayed status (and amount of delay if applicable).
• Carrier/vessel: The carrier’s SCAC code and the vessel(s) carrying the first container inside the BL/Booking.
• Journey: Details on the journey status and origin and destination port locodes for the first container inside the BL/Booking.

The table view will include all BL/Bookings uploaded, including BL/Bookings for which no containers were found or are yet to be populated, for example in the case of BL/Booking number for which the carrier is yet to provide information.