BoxTech provides a central data repository for container owners and operators to post fleet technical details

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BoxTech: Global Container Database

Supply chain safety and efficiency through data visibility: A non-profit platform for container technical details.

BIC Boxtech shipping container database

BoxTech for Owners/Operators

BoxTech allows container owners/operators to register their entire container fleets in a central data repository.

  • Key container technical details instantly available to trading partners and other users in the supply chain.
  • Post important exception alerts, such as recovery alerts, to individual units.
  • When units are sold, BoxTech allows owners to flag those units as sold, ensuring visibility throughout the industry that these units are no longer part of their fleet.
  • Additional info here about being a public register i.e. French Carrier use case

BoxTech for Digitized Supply Chain

BoxTech allows shippers, carriers, terminals, depots, and other supply chain participants to instantly obtain technical information about containers.

  • Reference to the identity and size type elements that are important for terminals here?
  • BoxTech means a one-stop-shop to obtain container tare weights for use in Method 2 SOLAS VGM declarations.
  • APIs allow users to integrate this information directly into their systems, avoiding unnecessary searches for container information and the inevitable errors that result from data re-keying.
  • BoxTech is provided by the BIC – a non-profit organization serving the container transportation industry.

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Find out more about BoxTech, the global shipping container technical characteristics database by the Bureau of International Containers.

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BoxTech API

The BoxTech API allows users to integrate their container fleet information directly into their systems, avoiding unnecessary searches and inevitable errors from data re-keying.

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BoxTech, the global shipping container Technical Characteristics Database by the Bureau of International Containers.

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