Release date: 2 June 2025
Portcast expands its range of programmatic APIs and offers an easy to use Port Congestion API that covers all major ports globally. This API empowers supply chain and logistics teams to proactively manage disruptions, optimize port calls, and reduce demurrage and detention costs.
Portcast’s Port Congestion dataset is generated by constantly monitoring Container vessels’ activity into, inside, and out of ports; this allows the generation of a number of different metrics that can help industry experts understand disruptions and activity levels inside ports.
This dataset, available on our UI so far, is now also available via an easy-to-use API that delivers the same data available so far in a programmatic fashion. Additionally, Portcast now offers, as part of the congestion API dataset which is delivered via the API, a new metric called “Port Congestion Category”. This is a human readable index that classifies port congestion levels onto predefined levels for quick classification, based on weekly activity levels for a specific port.
The full list of features includes:
Impacted users by this range of features include every customer interested in integrating port congestion information for containerships programmatically into their own applications and systems. This includes use cases like carrier/route optimization, procurement & contract negotiation, or terminal resource planning. The API can be complemented with an access to our Port Congestion dashboard, accessible via the Portcast Web Application. Reach out to our customer success team at support@portcast.io for more information.