When performing uploads of ocean shipments, the Portcast platform will automatically generate a summary of the upload process, including a table with counts of rows and whether they were uploaded successful or have encountered any issues.

This document gives you additional information on which of these statuses mean and helps you fix the underlying issues.

Total Records submitted

This is a count of all individual shipment identifiers combinations found in your upload file - individual upload records if you will. They should represent 100% of upload operations in the process. Typically, they will correlate with the rows found on the document - minus spreadsheet headers, for example.

Uploaded Successfully

These are upload records using BL number (not container number) which did not encounter errors during the upload process, and the data validation that occurs in the Portcast platform. This means that, for all records under “Uploaded Successfully”, new objects were created in the platform which should be displayed under your tracked shipments in the UI or API response.

However, because the BL number can have multiple containers associated, additional operations will be ran after the upload process is finished to fetch these.

The containers themselves might include cases where valid tracking data is not yet being fetched actively (for example, because of an Early Journey situation where the carrier is not yet actively providing milestones); but no errors were found stopping the shipments from being added to the platform.

Processed Successfully

These are upload records using Container number which did not encounter errors during the upload process, and the data validation that occurs in the Portcast platform. This means that, for all records under “Processed Successfully”, new containers were created in the platform which should be displayed under your tracked shipments in the UI or API response.

They might include cases where valid tracking data is not yet being fetched actively (for example, because of an Early Journey situation where the carrier is not yet actively providing milestones); but no errors were found stopping the containers from being added to the platform.

Records without issues

This is a sum of “Uploaded Successfully” (for BL-based uploads) and “Processed Successfully” (for container number-based uploads).

Records with errors

There are records for which the upload was attempted but hard failed, meaning that no upload operations were completed for these rows. No equivalent shipments will therefore be found for these situations in the Portcast APIs or Web Application.