api service Archives - Shipsgo Blog Supply Chain Visibility Platform - Blog Tue, 25 Jun 2024 08:13:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://blog.shipsgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/cropped-academy-shipsgo-last-1-32x32.png api service Archives - Shipsgo Blog 32 32 What is API Integration? How Does ShipsGo API Apply Easily to My Company? https://blog.shipsgo.com/what-is-api-integration-how-does-shipsgo-api-apply-easily-to-my-company/ Fri, 31 Mar 2023 11:03:57 +0000 https://blog.shipsgo.com/?p=12464 ShipsGo API Integration The ShipsGo API v1.1 is organized around REST. Based on your HTTP header accept value (application/json, application/xml) our API returns JSON-encoded and XML responses and uses standards HTTP response codes, and verbs. For all methods the content type must be selected as url-encoded. See also our Help Center. ShipsGo API Authentication You [...]

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ShipsGo API Integration

The ShipsGo API v1.1 is organized around REST. Based on your HTTP header accept value (application/json, application/xml) our API returns JSON-encoded and XML responses and uses standards HTTP response codes, and verbs. For all methods the content type must be selected as url-encoded.

See also our Help Center.

ShipsGo API Authentication

You have two ways;

If you already have a ShipsGo account you can generate your API Key through ShipsGo API section of your dashboard. Login from here. 

If you haven’t created an account yet sign up here for free.

ShipsGo API Attributes

For the Status Payload attributes and shipment movements’ relationship with ShipsGo data explaining unique situations and rules, please see API Mapping PDF.

POST - BL Number - Custom Form

Create a tracking request with Master Bill of Lading Number

API-BL-Number

POST

/api/v1.1/ContainerService/PostCustomContainerFormWithBl

Host: shipsgo.com

Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

QUERY PARAMETERS
{authCode}
{containerNumber}
{shippingLine}
{emailAddress}
{referenceNo}

  • {referenceNo} is optional.
  • If you don’t know the {shippingLine}, enter the value as OTHERS.
  • The {shippingLine} should be written down exactly as in the shipping line list.

POST

/api/v1.1/ContainerService/PostCustomContainerFormWithBl

POST

/api/v1.1/ContainerService/PostCustomContainerFormWithBl

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Ruscon was founded in 1996 in the seaport of Novorossiysk in South Russia. The company entered the container transportation and agency market of St.Petersburg in North-Western Russia in 2021. Starting in 2003, Ruscon has invested in developing land-side container terminals in Southern Russia and develops terminals in the Moscow region and North-West of the country.

Ruscon provides its own regular intermodal service between the Russian Pacific port of Vostochniy and the MANP terminal in Moscow. Ruscon is one of Russia’s leading container transportation companies. Their capacity is 250 000 TEU containers annually, passing via main Russian and CIS ports.

ShipsGo Container Tracking Service

Company: RUSCON

Approach:  ShipsGo Freight Forwarder API Service

Ruscon’s customer service department has been using ShipsGo services for more than one year. The company exports its products to more than 32 all over the world and uses 10 different container shipping lines in its shipments. Before using the ShipsGo tracking API module, they used to track their shipments’ containers from the shipping lines’ websites and spent too much time on each single container tracking.

ShipsGo gives API  (Application Programming Interface) technology to its customers. API is a software intermediary that allows two applications to talk to each other. For the sake of simplification, let us explain how it works. It has many containers to track its customized software system. The ShipsGo is part of its system supplying the current locations of the related containers. What is missing is the critical link to communicate Ruscon’s container tracking request to the ShipsGo and deliver Ruscon’srequest back to its system. In this case, API is Messenger, which takes Ruscon’s request and tells the ShipsGo system what to do. Then, ShipsGo delivers the current position of the related container. The Company’s software system acquires it and delivers it to its related customer.

Ruscon increased the visibility of its shipments thanks to ShipsGo. In addition to that, After using the ShipsGo API Tracking Module, time spent on tracking decreased significantly.

Outcomes: 

  • Ruscon integrated its software system with ShipsGo tracking services via API integration.
  • Time spent on tracking decreased significantly.
  • Ruscon increased the visibility of its shipments.

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