Containers

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A container is a way of grouping specific shipments together ready for manifesting.

The following pages will provide information relating to creating and managing containers and their associated shipments prior to manifesting.

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It is not mandatory to develop the Container API, however this feature might help if you need to manifest certain groups of shipments separate from the rest of the shipments you produced that day

Before you can use the various container API requests, you must first ensure that you have made a secure connection to the Shipping API. How to do this is covered in the Authentication Guide document.

This document is split into the following functionality for containers within the Shipping API.

1. Add a Container: Create and name a new container to be used for manifesting a specific group of shipments.

2. Get a Container: Provides a list of all containers set up on the system.

3. Add/Remove Shipment: Add or remove shipments to containers/remove shipments from containers.

4. Delete Container: Delete a specific container

Manage Containers Process flow

The following diagram outlines the process that is undertaken to Manage containers using the available calls via the API service.