New features & updates

• Coverage for vessel ATA and ATD for vessels arriving in Vlissingen and Terneuzen:

In collaboration with North Sea Port, Portbase establisched a connection with the Enigma+ platform. As a result, the  Actual Time of Arrival (ATA) and Actual Time of DeparturATD updates for vessels arriving in Vlissingen or Terneuzen, (at terminals Kloosterboer, ZZC and Verbrugge) can now be tracked in Cargo Controller.

• Cut and run renamed to 'discharge not confirmed' :

The status cut and run is normally shown when a discharge confirmation is not received and the vessel has already departed from the terminal. In reality in many situations the equipment has been discharged, but merely has not been confirmed yet through a confirmation message. The cut and run status is therefore often misleading. As of now the status ‘cut and run’ is renamed to ‘discharge not confirmed’, which better reflects the actual status.

As of today you can withdraw incorrect document pre-notifications to ECT (Delta/ Euromax) via Notification Import Documentation.

Read in the Quick Start Guide of Notification Import Documentation how the new functionality works.

For other terminals document can only be withdrawn by contacting the terminal directly. please find the contact details in this FAQ.

In addition: Document pre-notifications to ECT (Delta/ Euromax) contain an additional status 'Processing'. This status is displayed when the terminal has received the pre-notification correctly, but has not yet been able to process it in the TOS-system. After processing, the successive status will be 'Accepted' or 'Rejected'. Usually the status processing will change to 'accepted' once the container is discharged.

Good news! As of today we introduce a major improvement to the vessels estimated time of arrival in Cargo Controller. Where we used to show only the ETA for port entry, we now automatically update the vessel ETA with arrival at the first berth (as soon as known). This ETA will be much closer to the actual time of arrival of the vessel.

Find out below where you can see the vessel ETA.

The improved ETA is also updated in the Cargo Controller API. Find the most recent specs at developer.portbase.com.

• Download feature: It is now possible to download a CSV-overview of all your previous notifications. You will find the download-button at the top of your overview. search filters will also apply to the downloaded file.
• Date filter: New filter option to filter by date (from-to)

Improvements

• The vessel overview now orders the upcoming vessels better.
• When tracking new vessels, only upcoming sailings will be shown, ordered on ETA. Past sailings are no longer shown on top.
• Terminal name for APM terminals Rotterdam (APMTR) has been renamed to Hutchison Ports Delta II (HPDII), as the terminal is part of the Hutchison group since june 1.

New Features

• Label functionality: add labels to your B/Ls to easily categorize. Read more or watch the instructional video
• New filter option: filters for a specific time frame are now available
• Applied filters are now stored after closing Cargo Controller. After re-opening, your previously applied filters are still active.
• Improved coverage of customs inspections; In case customs manually selects shipments for inspection, those inspections are now shown as well in Cargo Controller. Previously only selections based on automated customs risk assessment were shown.

Improvements

• When adding an import document directly from within cargo controller, the terminal name is already prefilled.
• Improved visualization of applied filters
• Improved linking of import documents to a B/L (sometimes import document was not shown, while it was registered in notification import documentation)
• PDF-download of a B/L: improved the listing of weight per goods-item and weight of entire B/L
• Elaborated API specifications on developer.portbase.com
• Copy-pasting improved when pasting values with dashes