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Beacon sheds light on airfreight and ocean transhipment

[ September 5, 2023   //   Chris Lewis ]

The Beacon supply chain visibility platform has added air freight tracking and ocean transshipments to its suite of products.
It says that obtaining tracking updates can be a costly, time-intensive task with supply chain operators required to log into a multitude of carrier portals and manually log milestones and ETAs in spreadsheets. However, Beacon says it now enables effortless multi-modal tracking in a single platform. With connections to over 166 air carriers, Beacon customers can now receive real-time tracking updates for air shipments directly and need only enter an air waybill to get started, with tracking data for most major air carriers being populated within a minute.
Ocean transshipments are a common dark spot and Beacon has bolstered its ocean freight tracking offering allowing customers to filter by direct or indirect status and transshipment port, identify the number of transshipment ports and see when a container is arriving at intermediary ports, waiting to be loaded, and departing.

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