The Portcast Transit Times dashboard is a helpful tool to help you analyze the historical evolution of your container transit times and understand the performance of different carriers and transit lanes. It also allows you to compare planned vs actual transit times information, per lane and per carrier.

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Here are some example use cases for the Transit Times dashboard:

• What was the historical performance of all carriers in the Rotterdam → Singapore lane for the last year for my containers?
• How has Maersk’s performance evolved over time during the last quarter for my containers?
• What carriers have the lowest transit times going from China to the United States of America during the course of the last 6 months?
• What impact do transshipment occurrences have in the Transit times performance of my containers, as compared to direct voyages?
• What lanes between countries have the best Transit times performance, and which ports and carriers should I prioritize for my shipments?
• Which carriers have a tendency to be delayed, and which ones are more reliable, for the trade lanes that my containers go through? </aside>

Read on to understand how to use functionalities like advanced filtering on this dashboard to enhance your decision-making.

What constitutes Transit Time?

The concept of Transit Time in the context of Portcast’s Ocean Visibility is the time it takes for a container to go from the Port of Loading (POL) to the Port of Discharge (POD). This includes:

• all of the actual voyage legs’ duration
• transshipment port dwell time
• waiting time outside the port (time in anchorage…) or from/to port

In order for shipments to be included in the Transit Time calculations, for the purposes of this dashboard, they therefore need to have arrived at their final POD. Containers who are still undertaking a voyage are therefore not taken into consideration.

How does the Transit Times dashboard work?

By default, the Transit times dashboard plots data as a line chart for the container shipments on your Org accounts, for a specific time range filtered by Actual Time of Arrival (ATA) in the Port of Discharge (POD), the final destination port. All arrived containers for the default scope of time are displayed, irrespective of POD or POL location.

Example of the default display for the Transit times dashboard. Note the list of Carriers on the left, based on the containers that exist on this example account. Each line on the plotted chart represents the Transit Time performance of that particular carrier, with each point on the line representing the average time weekly.

In order to start extracting insights from the Transit Times dashboard, start by defining the time range of the shipments you want to analyze. The charts will automatically update and show the historical performance of the carriers of your containers. If you hover your mouse over each of the entries on the line chart, a popup will appear with detailed information on that specific week/carrier entry, including:

• Carrier name
• Week of arrival at POD
• Total count of containers carried