Online Shipment Tracking

Trackpoint provides shipment tracing services to customers in the transportation sector.

The Challenge

As a new Internet venture, Trackpoint was formed to offer independent track and trace services for carriers in the transport industry as those customers clamoured for a method to provide shipment tracing services to their customers, reliably and securely.

The Solution

METREX designed a datafeed mechanism, built on EDI standards, that allowed the transport sector to provide detailed online information of shipments and the current status of customer loads. Trucks equipped with satellite dishes provide pinpoint accurate information on freight. With this information fed directly into the Trackpoint system, customers are able to determine the exact location of their freight at any given time, without having to call their carriers.

Allowing rapid third-party integration with data feeds from carrier partners, shippers are able to provide a unique integrated shipment tracking solution providing information on shipments no matter who is carrying the actual freight. Using industry standard Internet protocols and the MOMEX web services platform, this integration is possible without requiring any custom coding from carrier partners.