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Track ocean containers and shipments: live ETAs, delays, carrier events and share links.
Remote server: your requests and data go to berthtime.com. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http berthtime https://berthtime.com/api/v1/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
list_companies — Who this connection acts as (user or API key) and every company it may act for, with read or read + write access in each (a.k.a. whoami). Calist_shipments — List or search the company's own tracked shipments, newest first. Use it to find a shipment (free-text `q`: reference, customer reference, clist_shared_shipments — Shipments that other companies (network connections) share with this company, read only, and open tracking requests (filter=requests). They get_shipment — Everything about one shipment: summary, route (POL, transshipments, POD with actual and estimated times), current position estimate, carrierget_shipment_events — The full DCSA-style event timeline of one shipment (gate in, load, departure, arrival, discharge, ...), oldest first. Use it when the user wlist_arriving_shipments — Active shipments not yet arrived whose carrier ETA falls within the next N days, soonest first. Use it for "what arrives this week"; for an list_delayed_shipments — Active shipments whose carrier ETA has slipped versus the first ETA BerthTime saw, by at least min_delay_hours, most delayed first. Use it fdetect_reference — Check a number before tracking it: is it a container (ISO 6346 check digit), bill of lading or booking number, and which carrier issued it. list_carriers — The carriers BerthTime knows: SCAC, name, which reference types each supports and whether tracking is live today. Use it to find the SCAC foget_usage — The company's plan and billable shipments for one month: included allowance, used, overage, cost so far and trial end. A shipment counts onclist_alert_rules — The company's email alert rules (delay over N days, arrived, delivered, tracking failed), their scope (all shipments, a tag or a carrier) anlist_support_requests — The company's support requests to the BerthTime team, most recent activity first. Use it to check the status of a request; to open one use ctrack_shipment — Start tracking a container, bill of lading or booking number. Type and carrier are detected when omitted; if the carrier is not recognised tupdate_shipment_identifiers — Set, change or remove the booking and bill of lading numbers of a tracked shipment, or add container numbers to it. Use it when the user givget_share_link — The shipment's current public read-only tracking link (a URL anyone can open without logging in), if it has one. Use it before sending a lincreate_share_link — Create a public read-only tracking link for a shipment, or return the active one (safe to repeat). Anyone with the URL sees status, ETA, roucreate_support_request — Open a support request with the BerthTime team on behalf of the user. Only when the user asks to contact support or report a problem; to seearchive_shipment — Stop tracking a shipment. Its history is kept and track_shipment with the same reference re-activates it. Only when the user asks to stop orNot tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.