Northbound & VIZION: Reducing D&D with Real-Time Visibility

To address this challenge, Northbound, the leading D&D cost-reduction platform is partnering with VIZION, a leader in container tracking. Through this partnership, Northbound can now provide the most complete container tracking events.

Combined with the in-house Demurrage & Detention engine, they can now serve the growing demand for live cost transparency, offering importers and exporters a high-potential solution to increase control of their container flows and reduce costs.

Optimizing Cost Control with Real-Time Visibility

VIZION provides high-quality, real-time tracking of container movements, utilizing a network of over 140 data sources. This visibility provides shippers with accurate, up-to-date milestones into their container status. By integrating real-time visibility with Northbound’s cost reduction platform, shippers can proactively verify milestones against a neutral source and prevent D&D charges before they accumulate.

As a result, Northbound delivers deep insights into long-term D&D trends, enabling decision-makers to uncover cost-saving opportunities and renegotiate contracts with confidence.

A Game-Changing Collaboration

The partnership between VIZION and Northbound blends cutting-edge container visibility with advanced financial oversight, giving logistics teams the tools to optimize supply chain performance and control their D&D fees. This combined solution enables businesses to make smarter, data-driven decisions, reducing unnecessary fees, speeding up container turnover, and optimizing their overall container logistics.

About Northbound

Northbound helps businesses reduce demurrage and detention (D&D) costs with real-time cost transparency, automated alerts, and AI-driven invoice verification. By making hidden fees visible as they accumulate, the platform enables teams to act early—optimizing container flows, coordinating with partners, and preventing unnecessary charges.

About VIZION

Vizion empowers companies to track and monitor individual containers during the container journey and has recently launched capabilities to actively monitor 60% of global trade. TradeView, a Global Trade Intelligence platform, is designed to monitor, measure, and analyze the flows of global trade to identify risk and improve supply chain resilience.