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Destin8: container terminal statuses

Destin8 is a UK platform for container terminals and ports that hauliers can use to get information about the status of their containers.

Adriaan Coppens avatar
Written by Adriaan Coppens
Updated over 5 months ago

Introduction

You will need to contact Destin8 to request API credentials, Destin8 will charge a fee for that. Once you have received the API credentials, you can contact our support team to set up the integration for you.

The communication with Destin8 only flows one way: from Destin8 to Qargo, we only receive statuses from them.

The way things are linked between the two systems is based on the container number; so this has to be exactly the same value across both systems.

There’s three types of messages we currently support:

  • RRA01: release authority - sets customs cleared for the handling

  • RAM01: release amendment - sets the released status for the handling

  • OTA01: out turn amendment - sets the container landed status for the handling

Supported terminals and operators

Ones that are currently supported and configured are:

Felixstowe – Port of Felixstowe:

  • Port of Felixstowe, The Dock, Felixstowe, Suffolk IP11 3SY

  • Landguard Terminal, Berths 8 and 9, 72 Park, The Dock, Felixstowe, Suffolk IP11 3SY

  • Trinity Terminal, 36 Park, The Dock, Felixstowe, Suffolk IP11 3SY

Bristol – Bristol Port Company:

  • BRISTOL PORT COMPANY, BERTH 1, ROYAL PORTBURY DOCKS, BRISTOL, BS20 7XQ

Grangemouth – Forth Ports Grangemouth:

  • Grangemouth Container Port, Central Dock Road, Grangemouth, Falkirk FK3 8UE

Liverpool – Peel Ports Group:

  • Liverpool Container Port, Royal Seaforth Terminal, Liverpool, Merseyside L21 1LA

Teesport – PD Ports:

  • PD Teesport, Tees Dock, Grangetown, Middlesborough TS6 6UD

Tilbury – Forth Ports:

  • Tilbury Container Terminal, 39 Berth, Tilbury Docks, Tilbury RM18 7HX

Operational/day to day use

Order detail

When you create a new order and you select a terminal then you will see the terminal container icon appear:

After you save the order, you will also see a booking object:

You will see that it is in the status to register, which means the statuses haven't been requested yet from Destin8.

Once you complete the "Sync container status with external system" task, then you will start receiving the status updates and you will see that the status goes from to Register to registered.

The statuses are the following:

  • Arrived: the container has arrived at the port

  • Cleared: the container has gone through customs clearance

  • Released: the container has been released

  • Executed:

Icons:

  • Question mark: we didn't have any status information

  • Green: it is okay

  • Red: there is an issue

This will be similar to what you see in Destin8.

Planning

In your to plan section, you need to click on customise:

And then activate the Container status column:

This will allow you to see the container status in your to plan screen.

We also have a special container terminal booking screen on your to plan:

When you click this button, you will see an overview of all your container terminal statuses:


Configuration done by Qargo

Configuration: Tasks

You need to go to the task configuration:

You should see an additional section with "Container terminals" where you should see the following tasks:

If those tasks are not there, then click on add tasks and then "Start from template" and you should see the below:

Then press save.

You should see the following tasks:

  1. Sync container status with external system: this will request the status to DP World and display it in Qargo. Ideally this task is configured as Automatically complete.

  2. Create container booking => This is not necessary for Destin8

  3. Send booking to terminal => This is not necessary for Destin8

Configuration: Organisation settings

The feature flag for container bookings should be active:

If this is not the case, then please contact our customer support team to activate this for you.

Configuration: Integrations

Under configuration => Integration, you should see the Destin8 integration:

If this is not present, then please contact our customer support team to activate this for you.


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