Compare BlueCargo vs. Cargo-Planner

We facilitate the connection between drayage trucking firms, logistics providers, and shippers to ensure timely cargo pick-ups and drop-offs while minimizing demurrage and per diem costs. BlueCargo offers automated tracking at the container level for containers in dwell, eliminating the need for repetitive manual excel reporting across various disparate platforms and supporting proactive decision-making. Our centralized container management and per diem dispute resolution tool equips you with a thorough understanding of your detention and demurrage fees, along with the necessary documentation to challenge invoices effectively. Optimize your operations through a unified view of vessel schedules, gate timings, and detailed information about available and restricted slots for empty appointments. Monitor the status of your containers in real-time from their arrival to their return, allowing you to identify containers needing immediate attention to enhance the efficiency of your drayage team. With these innovations, you can not only streamline your current processes but also foster a more responsive logistics environment.

Cargo-Planner is browser-based load planning for sea containers, trucks and trailers, air ULDs, pallets and breakbulk. Nothing to install: load a packing list, pick your equipment, and work with the result in an interactive 3D view you can rotate, inspect and edit by hand. What separates it from a cubing calculator is what the solver is allowed to know. Segregation matrices for cargo that may not share a container. Centre-of-gravity intervals and full axle configurations - front and rear sets, up to nine axles each, spacing and per-axle maxima. Load-bearing limits, stacking predicates, discharge sequencing for multi-drop routes, and loader reach. Control which of the six orientations each item type may take, rather than a single rotate-or-not flag. Write your own rules, selecting items by any property you send, including custom columns and derived values such as density or longest side. When the goal is not simply volume, compose the cost function yourself. Equipment is modelled as it really is: mezzanine decks, internal walls and corner posts each carrying their own load limit; tapered contours for trailer noses and sloping ULD ceilings; extendable trailers where the solver decides when the extension is needed. Group a truck and trailer, or a whole aircraft or vessel, and plan them as one unit. There is a full REST API behind all of it. Post cargo and equipment as JSON and get back every container used with the position and rotation of each item; calculate synchronously or asynchronously; move, insert and remove items and repack around the change. Webhooks for two-way communication, and an SDK to embed the 3D view in your own portal. Excel in. 3D, PDF, Excel or a share URL out. 13 languages. SSO and audit trails on Enterprise. Free trial.