Improvements

I spoke with Centric Brands today and we are having issues with being charged 5 or more times for the same container because of uploading multiple BOLs with the same container number. This is because they don't want to miss anything for these consolidated shipments (to save on costs). This is leading to current billing disputes. Going forward we should not charge for the same container many times. We can probably filter this out by assuming the same container on the same sailing (even if several BOLs) is only a tracking request for 1 container.

Right now Terminal49 shows only the actual discharge date, not the estimate (when it is available from the carriers). Some customers use Estimated Discharge for planning purposes so want to see that via Terminal49.

Carriers do not always return the final empty returned milestone for each container in it's lifecycle. When this happens we are unable to update the consumer or stop checking the container status at the shipping line. Once a container is picked up we can check the container status individually at the shipping line instead of in the context of the BL/Booking we will be able to see when a new journey (empty out) has begun and we can create a new event like. 'Lifecycle Ended' 'Journey Terminated' .

Track by house Bill of Lading

occasionally, a container will split off from its original booking mid-journey. T49 should automatically update shipments so that the departed container does not show up anymore (and possibly create the new booking to which the container relocated).

rail containers are not actually available for drayage carriers to pick up until they arrive at the rail terminal, so there is no value in container availability/LFD at the port of discharge.