When goods enter the warehouse, they are assigned an identifier. From that moment on, every movement in the network is tied to that identifier: loading into the container, departure from the port, transit, customs, the destination warehouse, and delivery.
A milestone is more than a date
Every tracking record has a status, a date, and a description. The description is what the destination team writes at that moment: it may be the container number, the warehouse name, or the entity that received the shipment. That detail is what lets us reconstruct the route when something doesn't add up.
- Fifteen standardized statuses, grouped into six stages of the journey.
- Date and time of each record, with its time zone.
- Location as declared by the team that logs the milestone.
- The channel through which the update came in.
Codes that look like errors but aren't
Some statuses arrive with English names from the destination network. If you see a code such as IN_CONTAINER or AT_PORT_OF_ENTRY, it isn't an incident: it's how the destination system names that stage.