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Give Your AI Agent Real-Time Shipping Intelligence in 2 Minutes

Give Your AI Agent Real-Time Shipping Intelligence in 2 Minutes

via Dev.to WebdevVinay Bhosle

If you're building AI agents that touch logistics, supply chain, or international trade, you've probably hit this wall: your agent can reason about shipping but has zero access to actual rate data. No freight rates. No demurrage charges. No surcharge breakdowns. No port congestion info. Just hallucinated numbers. I built ShippingRates to fix that — 24 MCP tools that give any AI agent real-time access to ocean shipping data from Maersk, MSC, CMA-CGM, Hapag-Lloyd, ONE, and COSCO across 184 countries. It's now live on the Apify Store as a pay-per-event MCP server. No crypto wallet needed. No API key setup. Just connect and query. What you get Free tools (no charge): shippingrates_stats — database coverage stats shippingrates_lines — list all carriers shippingrates_search — full-text search across all data shippingrates_fx — currency exchange rates Paid tools ($0.03 - $0.35 per call): Demurrage & detention calculators (per carrier, per country, per container type) Freight rate lookups by t

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