project44 Ocean Visibility vs Terminal49

project44 Ocean Visibility provides real-time container-level information for ocean freight, with the aim of helping reduce demurrage, detention, and lost containers. It reports coverage of 98% of global ocean volumes and monitoring of more than 350,000 containers daily, with visibility across nearly all shipping lines, more than 700 ports, and 5,000 vessels. Predictive ETAs extend through container discharge; project44 describes them as more accurate than carrier ETAs when shipments are significantly early or delayed. Customers can start tracking in Movement using a bill of lading, booking number, or container ID. Additional capabilities include RoRo and barge visibility, GLEC-accredited emissions visibility, and AI document parsing. Ocean APIs provide integration options for a TMS or other system, including authentication, ETAs, and webhooks. The product supports ocean and intermodal tracking, exception alerts, inventory and order management, document management, and API access. It is available on web, Android, and iOS. Pricing is on request.

Terminal49 combines container tracking, shipment documents and workflow automation for logistics operations, with web and API access. It tracks across carriers, terminals, vessel and AIS activity, and intermodal rail; its data is described as updated hourly. The API provides shipment milestones such as vessel events, container moves, holds, fees and Last Free Day information. The platform can classify documents automatically and associate them with the relevant container. Milestone and exception alerts are available, while the Complete plan adds automated workflows and custom reports. The API uses webhooks for status changes and supplies standardized JSON, developer documentation and code samples. Listed integrations include Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Microsoft SQL Server, Google Sheets, Excel, NetSuite, SAP, Descartes, CargoWise, Power BI and Azure. Terminal49 says data transfers are encrypted and that it is SOC 2 compliant. The free plan supports up to ten active containers and three users. Lite, Complete and Essential have annual contract or pay-as-you-go terms, with prices available by request or demo; the API page offers a seven-day trial with full API access. Its stated audience includes cargo owners, importers, exporters, freight forwarders, customs brokers, 3PLs and logistics technology companies.