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Early Journey Handling

In the Carrier overview within notes its possible to see which Carriers are supporting Early Journey/unassigned containers for B/Ls and Booking Numbers.

Events from an early journey will always be either estimates (EST) or predictions (PRE). All unassigned containers will equipment reference as “UNASSIGNED_CONTAINER_#” Where # is counting from 1.

Event example providing an predicted discharge for an unassigned container:

"events": [
    {
      "event_id": "edc05509-d0ae-4036-993e-5c241c39eb6e",
      "event_created_datetime": "2025-06-04T06:30:35+00:00",
      "equipment_reference": "UNASSIGNED_CONTAINER_1",
      "bill_of_lading_number": null,
      "carrier_booking_reference": "26139239",
      "event_classifier_code": "PRE",
      "equipment_event_type_code": "DISC",
      "event_description": "Predicted discharge",
      "event_datetime": "2025-07-17T22:44:00+00:00",
      "event_datetime_locale": "2025-07-17T18:44:00-04:00",
      "iso_equipment_code": "45GP",
      "empty_indicator_code": "LADEN",
      "transport_call": {
        "transport_call_id": "eccbe870-cbcc-4366-b653-f2b10fd88370",
        "carrier_service_code": null,
        "carrier_voyage_number": "23W26",
        "un_location_code": "CAMTR",
        "location": {
          "location_name": "MONTREAL",
          "country": "CA",
          "locode": "CAMTR",
          "un_location_code": "CAMTR",
          "latitude": "45.5725862741273",
          "longitude": "-73.50950060609027",
          "timezone": "America/Toronto",
          "long": -73.50950060609027,
          "lat": 45.5725862741273,
          "facility_name": null,
          "facility_smdg_code": null,
          "facility_bic_code": null
        },
        "mode_of_transport": "VESSEL",
        "transport_call_type": "PORT_OF_DESTINATION",
        "vessel": {
          "vessel_imo": 9317925,
          "vessel_imo_number": 9317925,
          "vessel_name": "MSC TAMPA",
          "vessel_operator_carrier_code": "HLCU",
          "vessel_operator_carrier_code_list_provider": "SCAC"
        }
      },
      "source_type": "GATEHOUSE",
      "leg_number": "1/1",
      "leg_type": "OCEAN",
      "is_dcsa_derived": false,
      "event_type": "EQUIPMENT",
      "transport_id": "-b44f6d33-63db-4bb5-8aac-7600974b12bc",
      "transport_name": null
    }
Updated on 16 September, 2026