Moving over 25, 000 orders each month, TransX is one of North America’s leading transportation providers, offering a wide range of logistics solutions. TransX has long understood the benefit of using rail for the long haul and truck for the first and last mile.

TransX continuously seeks to increase intermodal supply chain visibility for its valued customers. During a digital engagement meeting with CN, TransX observed that supply chain visibility for rail shipments provided by EDI had room for improvement.

CN had the solution. Our GPS API.

CN’s GPS API uses available GPS positioning from its mainline locomotives, associating the precise location to a container or rail car. The GPS updates the location of the container or railcar every 10 minutes. The result is the most granular supply chain visibility in the rail industry.

Whether by rail or road, TransX can now provide seamless visibility to their customers. CN and TransX will continue to work together to identify more business opportunities and areas to digitize.

“CN included us very early on in the development process, which provides a high-quality end result. This collaborative and tailored approach facilitated the speed of development, transparency of information, and ease of end-to-end experience.” Luke Mireault, Vice-President and Chief Innovation Officer

Benefit from CN’s API platforms today

CN’s API development platform offers customers data that was not previously available, such as GPS location of customers’ railcars and containers. CN APIs also provide key data such as BOL information, shipment status and ETA details. CN’s APIs also make it easy to query data from a wide variety of customer inputs including equipment, bill of lading information, vehicle identification number (VIN), reservation (RV) and more.

CN’s API Marketplace offers easy to use, real-time system-to-system connectivity, via state-of- the-art digital platforms – helping to empower CN’s customers to unlock critical supply chain data to help our customer’s access real-time visibility of their shipments on CN’s network.

To learn more about CN’s API development platform please contact us or visit our API customer page.