Portcast 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Portcast

4.4

(11)

Pricing

Starting at $500.00 per month

About Portcast

Portcast is a leading supply chain visibility software provider specializing in real-time container tracking for enhanced transportation visibility. Our solutions, including 1) Real-Time Container Tracking and 2) Predictive Ocean Visibility, leverage advanced analytics and cutting-edge AI technology to deliver precise container location insights and invaluable information on ocean freight movements.

Portcast's solution goes beyond standard tracking by providing alerts for container rollovers, anchorage delays, and port closures, empowering proactive decision-making.

Through our technology, businesses receive real-time updates on ocean containers, allowing for accurate prediction of cargo arrival times and seamless supply chain management. Our solution reduces port fees by 20%, minimizes manual work by 80%, and eliminates needless delays.

Powered by our proprietary machine-learning algorithm and advanced data sets, which include weather data, satellite imagery, trade indices, vessel routes, and schedules, we provide highly accurate predictions. Our customers can improve resolution time and plan contingency responses up to 7 days ahead of shipment arrival at the destination.

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Portcast Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $500.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$500.00

usage based, per month

No plan information available

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Portcast Features

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3PL Management
Accounting
Customer Management
Document Management
Quotes/Estimates
Rate Management
Route Optimization
Shipping Management
Transportation Management
Truckload Management
More features of Portcast
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
Air Shipping
Alerts/Notifications
API
Bills of Lading
Container Shipping
Customer Portal
Customizable Branding
Customizable Reports
Customizable Templates
Data Import/Export
Delivery Estimate
Delivery Record
Delivery Tracking
Demand Forecasting
Dispatch Management
EDI
For Freight Operations
Ground Shipping
Historical Reporting
Import/Export Management
Inventory Management
Inventory Optimization
Location Tracking
Monitoring
Multi-Location
Ocean Shipping
Order Management
Order Tracking
Predictive Analytics
Process/Workflow Automation
Real-Time Analytics
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Monitoring
Real-Time Notifications
Real-Time Reporting
Real-Time Updates
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Role-Based Permissions
Sales & Operations Planning
Search/Filter
Self Service Portal
Shipment Price Calculation
Shipment Tracking
Status Tracking
Strategic Planning
Supplier Management
Supply Chain Management
Third-Party Integrations
Warehouse Management
Workflow Management

Portcast User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

36%

64%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.3

Value for money

4.3

Customer support

4.6

Functionality

4.2

CARLOS C.

Verified reviewer

Logistics and Supply Chain

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2024

BEGGINING WITH TRACKING SOLUTIONS

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

easy to work with Portcast staff, open minded team

Cons:

we could not receive updated information in shorter periods of time and cross check information from satelites and ports

Reasons for choosing Portcast

website offer and relationship with Portcast crew

Vendor Response

Thank you, Carlos, for sharing your feedback. As we persist in our commitment to delivering a seamless tracking experience for our users, your insights are invaluable in helping us achieve that goal. Thank you for helping us serve you better!

Replied April 2024

Olga K.

Verified reviewer

Food & Beverages

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed May 2022

Accuracy & Flexibility

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The most powerful functionality is predictive ETA complementing by complete E2E view of ocean events gives us a best in accuracy of prediction and completeness of ocean view. Also we found very powerful the possibility to track suppliers containers ( even if not booked by ABI), which brings flexibility to growth our international business

Cons:

nothing specifically to be mentioned.

Reasons for choosing Portcast

PortcCast was a winner of EAT accuracy competition + Agile & proactive approach of management + Fast implementation

Vendor Response

Thanks a lot for your review, Olga! We're doing our best to deliver the highest quality insights for our customers. We have so much more to be released down the road.

Replied May 2022

Joschka B.

Verified reviewer

Logistics and Supply Chain

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2024

Portcast as a Raw Tracking Provider

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Great onboarding, great flexibility and great customer orientated. The Portcast team gave us always the feeling to understand our perspective and what our key needs are. It feels like cooperation and not only that we are a customer.

Cons:

Nothing so far, because we are still in the starting phase.

Vendor Response

Thank you, Joschka, for dedicating your time to review Portcast. Rest assured, we remain committed to delivering excellence tailored to your needs.

Replied April 2024

Panji G.

Verified reviewer

Logistics and Supply Chain

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed August 2022

Be a Wizard For Shipment Prediction

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The accuracy of prediction. We can inform arrival time better than shipping line website

Cons:

Cannot generate the prediction due to tecnical issue and or lack of database

Vendor Response

Thanks for your hands-on review, Panji! We think it perfectly reflects both sides of our product: what we deliver accurate predictions, and what we overcome multiplicity and discrepancy in input data sources. It's our challenge to constantly look for new solutions for our technology to reduce the number of cases that you've mentioned, thanks for that feedback!

Replied September 2022

Susana W.

Verified reviewer

Logistics and Supply Chain

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Reviewed September 2022

Visibility problem solved

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The software adapts to the needs of the company almost in its entirety, the visibility it provides with respect to the container tracking brings a lot of value.

Cons:

As an opportunity for improvement I would consider adding the name of the terminal to which the containers arrive and not only the port name, also consider mapping when the container is empty, between unload and gateout.

Vendor Response

Thank you for your kind feedback, Susana! We believe that the visibility at the handover points is especially crucial to enable smooth logistics operations. That includes arrival and container events at the terminal. Our team is now developing new capabilities to improve coverage for events at the terminal and we can't wait to introduce them to our customers.

Replied September 2022

Clavis C.

Verified reviewer

Logistics and Supply Chain

501-1000 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Reviewed April 2022

Overall user experience

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Predictive ETA feature helps a lot in providing latest update on vessel arrival

Cons:

We need to register shipments in advance before we can have the enquiry on tracking

Vendor Response

Thanks for your feedback, Clavis! We are intensively working on the quality of our ML algorithms and technologies' efficiency so it's easy to have some weak spots in customer service from time to time. We really appreciate your transparency and honesty with highlighting your experience, we are going to improve ourselves and hope in the future we would be 10 out of 10 for you!

Replied April 2022

Edwin R.

Verified reviewer

Import and Export

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Reviewed October 2022

Great service

Great experience with reliable customer service when clarifying any question it may arise.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The fact that we can have a master and child org allows us to have a better view of the container we need to track on a daily basis. This is something we are still working on, but it´s definitely a great feature.

Cons:

I think the product is using-friendly. Any request we have made has been attended positively.

Olaf B.

Verified reviewer

Transportation/ Trucking/ Railroad

10000+ employees

Used daily for free trial

Reviewed June 2022

Can you predict the future?

It is a very agile team always focusing and interesting to listen to their customers and their needs. A very committed team.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It helps you to predict at an early stage of how outside circumstances like weather , congestions, strikes may will impact your and your customers downstream processes

Cons:

At the time we tested / evaluated the product the reason for delays was not always clear. Understood that this has meanwhile been fixed

Vendor Response

Thanks for your review and kind words, Olaf! We're constantly working on adding more clarity to our UI and would be happy to see you again on the platform!

Replied June 2022

Daniel K.

Verified reviewer

Chemicals

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Reviewed November 2022

very impressive product

we can highly recommend working together

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

very committed team, uncomplicated approach, very quick implementation possible, results have convinced us.

Cons:

very clear reporting. daily milestone tracking clear and visual , scope convinced us

Shu Lin T.

Verified reviewer

Automotive

201-500 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Reviewed May 2022

Great feature in Portcast for container tracking

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Able to consolidate all shipment in one software for tracking. Can track using different methods BL, Container No.

Cons:

The time needed to reflect the container status after posting the BL or container no.

Vendor Response

Hello Shu Lin, In one of our latest updates, we've added a new algorithm that significantly reduced the time needed to reflect the container status. In the future, we're going to adjust that even more as we understand how important this time gap is. Thanks for your feedback!

Replied May 2022

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