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Maersk Container Tracking

Track Maersk by container number, bill of lading, or booking — live status, vessel position, and ETA in one place.

Example: carrier BL, booking reference, or container number. We normalize spaces, dashes, dots, and slashes automatically.
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10942 shipments tracked in the last 7 days · Last updated 31-Aug-2026 04:26

Supported on this carrier: Bill of Lading Booking Container

Maersk moves ocean containers on global east-west and north-south trades. Official SCAC: MAEU. Common prefixes include MAEU / MRKU / MRSU / MSKU / SEAU / SUDU. Use one search box for a container number, bill of lading (BL), or booking.

Maersk container tracking

A container number is usually 4 letters + 7 digits (for example ABCD1234567). Enter it above to follow the box through load, discharge, transshipment, and delivery milestones when the carrier returns them.

Maersk bill of lading tracking

Use the ocean bill of lading number from your booking confirmation or transport document. BL tracking often covers the full shipment, including multiple containers under the same B/L.

Maersk booking tracking

Use the booking or reservation number issued when space was confirmed. Booking tracking is useful before the BL is finalized or when you only have the booking party reference.

Maersk container tracking FAQ

How do I track a Maersk container or shipment?
Select Maersk, enter a supported tracking number (container, bill of lading, and/or booking depending on this carrier), and submit. ShipmentBeat builds a live timeline from the carrier portal plus AIS and terminal context when available.
Can I track Maersk with a container number?
Yes. Paste the full container number into the search field on this page. Container tracking is ideal when you care about a specific box’s events and locations.
Can I track Maersk with a bill of lading (BL)?
Yes. Enter the Maersk BL number to follow the ocean shipment. BL tracking is often the best choice when multiple containers share one bill of lading.
Can I track Maersk with a booking reference?
Yes. Enter the Maersk booking or reservation number. This works well early in the journey when you have a booking confirmation but not yet a final BL or container list.
What is the SCAC for Maersk?
Maersk uses the SCAC code MAEU. You will see this code on ocean freight documents and in some carrier portals next to the bill of lading or booking.
Which container prefixes does Maersk use?
Common Maersk container prefixes include MAEU / MRKU / MRSU / MSKU / SEAU / SUDU. A container number is usually 4 letters plus 7 digits; the first 4 letters are the prefix.
Can I track Maersk without a container number?
Yes, when this carrier accepts a bill of lading or booking. Enter the BL or booking above — you do not need a container number to start.
What if my Maersk number is not found?
Confirm the carrier and number type, remove spaces or dashes if you typed them, and retry. Public pages only show shipments already known to ShipmentBeat; sign in to add a new tracking request and get notified when the carrier portal responds.

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No naive fixed-interval polling. The system tunes crawl frequency to each leg's activity and how close it is to a key milestone (departure, arrival, transshipment) — the closer the moment, the more often we check, down to hourly, so rolled cargo, delays, and arrivals surface sooner.

Adaptive fetch cadenceDenser near arrival
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Planned vs Actual Route, on one map

See exactly when a vessel deviates from its planned route. Gray dashed line shows the carrier's official planned path. Blue solid line shows the real AIS trail.

Estimated vs actual: departure, arrival, transit days, and delay at a glance

We freeze the baseline estimated departure/arrival on the first crawl, then reconcile every update: on time or delayed, by how many days, how long in transit — all in one card. Every shipment on the same sailing sees the same baseline, no drift by lookup order. Even when a carrier only reports load/discharge, we backfill real departure/arrival times from sailing schedules wherever possible.

Shanghai → Rotterdam · Leg time
EstAct
Departure03-1903-20
Arrival04-0204-05
16 days transit · 3 days late

Rolled cargo, skipped ports, vessel swaps — surfaced, not buried

Vessel swaps, skipped port calls, last-minute destination-port changes, big shifts in estimated departure/arrival — we detect these roll and routing risk signals automatically and flag them in red for you, instead of burying them in the timeline.

Plan-change risk
  • Suspected roll· Vessel swap MSC ARUSHI → MSC LEO
  • Port skipped· Singapore call dropped
  • Destination changed· Rotterdam → Antwerp

Every ETA, vessel, and voyage change, recorded forever

Every time the carrier updates an ETA, vessel, or voyage, we record the change with a timestamp and can notify your team by email or webhook. Build trust with clients by showing exactly how delivery promises evolved.

ETA Changes (BL-266964433)5 updates
Apr 15Apr 22Apr 29May 06May 13May 20

Live AIS: speed, heading, navigation status, dual timestamps

Real-time vessel telemetry from global AIS network. See speed, heading, and IMO navigation status, plus both the AIS report time and our fetch time.

SampleMARIT MAERSK · IMO 9632167
Speed
17.0 kt
Heading
280°
Nav Status
Under way

Coverage

Carrier, customs, and port context in the same tracking record.

  • Customs milestones
  • Carrier alliance badges
  • Port type badges

Precision

Fine-grained events and derived KPIs without asking users to parse raw feeds.

  • 50+ event types
  • 4 derived KPIs
  • [A]/[E]/[P] time suffix

Exceptions

The moments that break plans — ETA shifts, vessel/voyage changes, transshipment stalls, suspected roll risk — are surfaced instead of buried in timelines.

  • Transshipment and dwell detection
  • Structured error states
  • Multi-language ready

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