Kuehne+Nagel International AG is a Swiss freight forwarder and contract logistics provider headquartered in Schindellegi, Switzerland, and one of the largest forwarders in the world across sea logistics, air logistics, road logistics and contract logistics. As a forwarder it sits in the intermediation layer of the supply chain — between shippers on one side and ocean carriers, airlines, hauliers, terminals and customs authorities on the other — and most of the data it exposes is carrier and terminal data it aggregates rather than originates. Its API posture is honest but conditional: a real WSO2-based developer portal at portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com lists 17 published APIs and serves every OpenAPI definition anonymously, but every subscription is customer-contract gated — a myKN account, a Kuehne+Nagel customer ID (CID) and an account manager who completes the "customer setup" are stated pre-requisites, so nobody outside a commercial relationship can call the gateway. Underneath the REST veneer the company's own connectivity page still advertises EDIFACT, ANSI X.12, Tradacoms, RosettaNet, iDOC, GS1 and CargoImp over AS2, OFTP-2, (S)FTP and VAN as the primary integration path, and its one customs "EDI" API is an unschematized pass-through. One surface — OceanEventInbox v1 — is explicitly built to the DCSA equipment-event standard, which makes Kuehne+Nagel a non-member implementer of a carrier standards body; the other sixteen APIs are proprietary Kuehne+Nagel contracts.
Kuehne+Nagel publishes 17 APIs on the APIs.io network, including ShipmentTracking API, ContainerTracking API, OrderTracking API, and 14 more. Tagged areas include Logistics, Supply Chain, Switzerland, Freight Forwarding, and Ocean Freight.
Kuehne+Nagel’s developer surface includes documentation, developer portal, signup flow, and 5 more developer resources.
Find and show details of the customer's shipments, with contents reflecting the visibility configured in myKN. Search shipments, load a single shipment by unique reference, and ...
Find and show details of the customer's seafreight containers, reflecting myKN visibility. Container search plus a per-container read keyed on the Kuehne+Nagel unique shipment r...
A service for consumers to receive order data information, searched by order attributes. Carries UN/LOCODE port fields, HS codes, EORI numbers and a GS1 global location number f...
A service for consumers to book an air shipment, optionally applying product prices supplied via the Airfreight Quote API. Carries IATA three-letter airport codes, air waybill a...
Create and update order bookings by shipper's reference and poll a process state. Discriminated booking bodies for AIR, FCL and LCL, with UN/LOCODE-typed ports and airports.
Create, patch, search and cancel purchase orders scoped to a Kuehne+Nagel customer code. UN/LOCODE ports, HS codes and EORI numbers appear on the order model.
Read the purchase-order configuration for a given Kuehne+Nagel customer code. The devportal publishes only an internal gateway environment for this API; no external endpoint URL...
Lets service providers submit container equipment events for shipments booked with Kuehne+Nagel, following Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA) standards. Inbound only ...
Validates and accepts incoming shipment event entries from third parties. Inbound only; the specification names a third-party application as the intended publisher.
Upsert or delete an externally-sourced shipment against a Kuehne+Nagel customer code and shipment number — the surface through which non-Kuehne+Nagel shipments are fed into Kueh...
Carrier-facing pickup-and-delivery execution for sea intermodal legs — list assigned consignments, pull job documents, post job status, post GPS tracking and post proof of deliv...
List, download, add and delete shipment-related documents against a Kuehne+Nagel unique shipment reference, plus a lookup of uploadable document types. The current version for n...
Legacy document management for shipment documents, limited to adding and downloading documents. Marked in the developer portal as legacy and intended for existing integrations o...
Described in the developer portal as being for bespoke customs integrations with customers. The published OpenAPI declares two POST operations, /order and /document, with no req...
Published in the developer portal as B2B-OldKAIExtractAPI — extract structured information from documents, with workspace management, synchronous and asynchronous file and zip p...
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name: Kuehne+Nagel
kind: company
description: 'Kuehne+Nagel International AG is a Swiss freight forwarder and contract logistics provider headquartered in
Schindellegi, Switzerland, and one of the largest forwarders in the world across sea logistics, air logistics, road logistics
and contract logistics. As a forwarder it sits in the intermediation layer of the supply chain — between shippers on one
side and ocean carriers, airlines, hauliers, terminals and customs authorities on the other — and most of the data it exposes
is carrier and terminal data it aggregates rather than originates. Its API posture is honest but conditional: a real WSO2-based
developer portal at portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com lists 17 published APIs and serves every OpenAPI definition anonymously,
but every subscription is customer-contract gated — a myKN account, a Kuehne+Nagel customer ID (CID) and an account manager
who completes the "customer setup" are stated pre-requisites, so nobody outside a commercial relationship can call the gateway.
Underneath the REST veneer the company''s own connectivity page still advertises EDIFACT, ANSI X.12, Tradacoms, RosettaNet,
iDOC, GS1 and CargoImp over AS2, OFTP-2, (S)FTP and VAN as the primary integration path, and its one customs "EDI" API is
an unschematized pass-through. One surface — OceanEventInbox v1 — is explicitly built to the DCSA equipment-event standard,
which makes Kuehne+Nagel a non-member implementer of a carrier standards body; the other sixteen APIs are proprietary Kuehne+Nagel
contracts.'
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/kuehne-nagel.png
tags:
- Logistics
- Supply Chain
- Switzerland
- Freight Forwarding
- Ocean Freight
- Container Shipping
- Air Cargo
- Road Freight
- Customs
- Trade Compliance
- Track and Trace
- Contract Logistics
- Standards
created: '2026-07-30'
modified: '2026-07-30'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: kuehne-nagel:shipment-tracking
name: Kuehne+Nagel ShipmentTracking API
description: Find and show details of the customer's shipments, with contents reflecting the visibility configured in myKN.
Search shipments, load a single shipment by unique reference, and read history records. Read-only polling; no webhook
or callback is published.
humanURL: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/apis/6b98ae4c-ef06-4f72-acba-616584ee7f0f/overview
baseURL: https://gateway.api.kuehne-nagel.com/track-trace/shipment/v2
tags:
- Track and Trace
- Shipments
- Ocean Freight
- Air Cargo
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/kuehne-nagel-shipment-tracking-v2-openapi.json
- type: Documentation
url: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/apis/6b98ae4c-ef06-4f72-acba-616584ee7f0f/documents
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/
- aid: kuehne-nagel:container-tracking
name: Kuehne+Nagel ContainerTracking API
description: Find and show details of the customer's seafreight containers, reflecting myKN visibility. Container search
plus a per-container read keyed on the Kuehne+Nagel unique shipment reference and container sequence number.
humanURL: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/apis/bf506fea-4c34-4072-bc1c-aa6d1e6f0ca8/overview
baseURL: https://gateway.api.kuehne-nagel.com/track-trace/container/v2
tags:
- Track and Trace
- Container Shipping
- Ocean Freight
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/kuehne-nagel-container-tracking-v2-openapi.json
- type: Documentation
url: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/apis/bf506fea-4c34-4072-bc1c-aa6d1e6f0ca8/documents
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/
- aid: kuehne-nagel:order-tracking
name: Kuehne+Nagel OrderTracking API
description: A service for consumers to receive order data information, searched by order attributes. Carries UN/LOCODE
port fields, HS codes, EORI numbers and a GS1 global location number field on item attributes.
humanURL: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/apis/24f13980-9857-41ef-a3e5-3cd7844da5d6/overview
baseURL: https://gateway.api.kuehne-nagel.com/track-trace/order/v2
tags:
- Track and Trace
- Order Management
- Supply Chain
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/kuehne-nagel-order-tracking-v2-openapi.json
- type: Documentation
url: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/apis/24f13980-9857-41ef-a3e5-3cd7844da5d6/documents
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/
- aid: kuehne-nagel:real-time-visibility-tracking
name: Kuehne+Nagel RealTimeVisibility-Tracking API
description: Read cargo items and their telemetry readings for real-time visibility. Two GET operations, polled; no subscription
or push channel is published.
humanURL: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/apis/d17c2f11-d4db-4edf-b4e0-b78406cfbb7f/overview
baseURL: https://gateway.api.kuehne-nagel.com/real-time-visibility/tracking/v1
tags:
- Track and Trace
- Telematics
- Visibility
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/kuehne-nagel-real-time-visibility-tracking-v1-openapi.json
- type: Documentation
url: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/apis/d17c2f11-d4db-4edf-b4e0-b78406cfbb7f/documents
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/
- aid: kuehne-nagel:booking-air
name: Kuehne+Nagel BookingAir API
description: A service for consumers to book an air shipment, optionally applying product prices supplied via the Airfreight
Quote API. Carries IATA three-letter airport codes, air waybill and HAWB service types, HS codes and IATA dangerous-goods
flags.
humanURL: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/apis/bfc135f0-875b-4421-b203-e56f91aa0e66/overview
baseURL: https://gateway.api.kuehne-nagel.com/booking/air/v2
tags:
- Air Cargo
- Booking
- Freight Forwarding
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/kuehne-nagel-booking-air-v2-openapi.json
- type: Documentation
url: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/apis/bfc135f0-875b-4421-b203-e56f91aa0e66/documents
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/
- aid: kuehne-nagel:booking-road
name: Kuehne+Nagel BookingRoad API
description: A service for consumers to book road shipments, with master-data category lookups and a document upload operation
alongside booking creation.
humanURL: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/apis/f3ca4f89-d159-4a5f-bedc-68a2eb7b483c/overview
baseURL: https://gateway.api.kuehne-nagel.com/booking/road/v1
tags:
- Road Freight
- Booking
- Freight Forwarding
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/kuehne-nagel-booking-road-v1-openapi.json
- type: Documentation
url: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/apis/f3ca4f89-d159-4a5f-bedc-68a2eb7b483c/documents
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/
- aid: kuehne-nagel:order-booking
name: Kuehne+Nagel OrderBooking API
description: Create and update order bookings by shipper's reference and poll a process state. Discriminated booking bodies
for AIR, FCL and LCL, with UN/LOCODE-typed ports and airports.
humanURL: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/apis/e520b7b7-44ff-4546-ad46-5c75d35041cc/overview
baseURL: https://gateway.api.kuehne-nagel.com/order-management/order-booking/v1
tags:
- Booking
- Order Management
- Ocean Freight
- Air Cargo
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/kuehne-nagel-order-booking-v1-openapi.json
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/
- aid: kuehne-nagel:purchase-order-management
name: Kuehne+Nagel PurchaseOrderManagement API
description: Create, patch, search and cancel purchase orders scoped to a Kuehne+Nagel customer code. UN/LOCODE ports, HS
codes and EORI numbers appear on the order model.
humanURL: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/apis/79670bfa-841d-4d9f-bbee-5a5d737f7d21/overview
baseURL: https://gateway.api.kuehne-nagel.com/order-management/purchase-order/v3
tags:
- Order Management
- Supply Chain
- Purchase Orders
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/kuehne-nagel-purchase-order-management-v3-openapi.json
- type: Documentation
url: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/apis/79670bfa-841d-4d9f-bbee-5a5d737f7d21/documents
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/
- aid: kuehne-nagel:esop-purchase-order-configuration
name: Kuehne+Nagel eSOPPurchaseOrderConfiguration API
description: Read the purchase-order configuration for a given Kuehne+Nagel customer code. The devportal publishes only
an internal gateway environment for this API; no external endpoint URL is advertised.
humanURL: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/apis/98eed3c9-1f7a-4d40-8852-f0eb452f315e/overview
tags:
- Order Management
- Configuration
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/kuehne-nagel-esop-purchase-order-configuration-v1-openapi.json
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/
- aid: kuehne-nagel:ocean-event-inbox
name: Kuehne+Nagel OceanEventInbox API
description: Lets service providers submit container equipment events for shipments booked with Kuehne+Nagel, following
Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA) standards. Inbound only — Kuehne+Nagel receives events here rather than
publishing them. Equipment references follow BIC ISO 6346, locations use UN/LOCODE, and carriers are identified by SCAC
or SMDG code lists.
humanURL: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/apis/ea0d3ea0-3825-4175-bb54-875068074dca/overview
baseURL: https://gateway.api.kuehne-nagel.com/integration/external/event/container/v1
tags:
- Standards
- DCSA
- Container Shipping
- Events
- Track and Trace
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/kuehne-nagel-ocean-event-inbox-v1-openapi.json
- type: Documentation
url: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/apis/ea0d3ea0-3825-4175-bb54-875068074dca/documents
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/
- aid: kuehne-nagel:shipment-event-integration
name: Kuehne+Nagel ShipmentEventIntegration API
description: Validates and accepts incoming shipment event entries from third parties. Inbound only; the specification names
a third-party application as the intended publisher.
humanURL: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/apis/fe5ed9e7-67cb-471f-a679-7bdade8d6850/overview
baseURL: https://gateway.api.kuehne-nagel.com/integration/event/shipment/event-integration/v1
tags:
- Events
- Integration
- Track and Trace
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/kuehne-nagel-shipment-event-integration-v1-openapi.json
- type: Documentation
url: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/apis/fe5ed9e7-67cb-471f-a679-7bdade8d6850/documents
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/
- aid: kuehne-nagel:external-shipment-integration
name: Kuehne+Nagel ExternalShipmentIntegration API
description: Upsert or delete an externally-sourced shipment against a Kuehne+Nagel customer code and shipment number —
the surface through which non-Kuehne+Nagel shipments are fed into Kuehne+Nagel visibility.
humanURL: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/apis/e4e7a568-9c87-4346-ae85-50e6a9ad0b00/overview
baseURL: https://gateway.api.kuehne-nagel.com/integration/external/shipment/v1
tags:
- Integration
- Shipments
- Visibility
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/kuehne-nagel-external-shipment-integration-v1-openapi.json
- type: Documentation
url: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/apis/e4e7a568-9c87-4346-ae85-50e6a9ad0b00/documents
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/
- aid: kuehne-nagel:intermodal-transport-execution
name: Kuehne+Nagel IntermodalTransportExecution API
description: Carrier-facing pickup-and-delivery execution for sea intermodal legs — list assigned consignments, pull job
documents, post job status, post GPS tracking and post proof of delivery per waypoint. Uses UN/LOCODE ports of loading
and discharge and SCAC carrier codes.
humanURL: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/apis/d2822b95-abc5-40f8-b8a6-62e3914a844a/overview
baseURL: https://gateway.api.kuehne-nagel.com/transport/execution/pickup-and-delivery/sea/v1
tags:
- Road Freight
- Ocean Freight
- Telematics
- Proof of Delivery
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/kuehne-nagel-intermodal-transport-execution-v1-openapi.json
- type: Documentation
url: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/apis/d2822b95-abc5-40f8-b8a6-62e3914a844a/documents
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/
- aid: kuehne-nagel:shipment-document-management-v3
name: Kuehne+Nagel ShipmentDocumentManagement API v3
description: List, download, add and delete shipment-related documents against a Kuehne+Nagel unique shipment reference,
plus a lookup of uploadable document types. The current version for new integrations.
humanURL: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/apis/e25ce18f-bfe5-47f7-ba14-b6d4acb0c085/overview
baseURL: https://gateway.api.kuehne-nagel.com/transport/execution/documentation/shipment/v3
tags:
- Documents
- Shipments
- Trade Compliance
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/kuehne-nagel-shipment-document-management-v3-openapi.json
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/
- aid: kuehne-nagel:shipment-document-management-v2
name: Kuehne+Nagel ShipmentDocumentManagement API v2
description: Legacy document management for shipment documents, limited to adding and downloading documents. Marked in the
developer portal as legacy and intended for existing integrations only; v3 is directed for new work.
humanURL: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/apis/76b61307-7289-474d-a2e7-06b6ee10ab12/overview
baseURL: https://gateway.api.kuehne-nagel.com/transport/execution/documentation/shipment/v2
tags:
- Documents
- Shipments
- Deprecated
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/kuehne-nagel-shipment-document-management-v2-openapi.json
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/
- aid: kuehne-nagel:b2b-customs-edi
name: Kuehne+Nagel B2B-CustomsEDI API
description: Described in the developer portal as being for bespoke customs integrations with customers. The published OpenAPI
declares two POST operations, /order and /document, with no request schemas, no response schemas and no operation descriptions
— an unschematized EDI pass-through rather than a modelled customs API.
humanURL: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/apis/d687d921-913e-429b-a95e-e7bbbd16658c/overview
baseURL: https://gateway.api.kuehne-nagel.com/b2b/customs/edi/v1
tags:
- Customs
- Trade Compliance
- EDI
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/kuehne-nagel-b2b-customs-edi-v1-openapi.json
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/
- aid: kuehne-nagel:kai-document-extract
name: Kuehne+Nagel KAI Document Extract API
description: Published in the developer portal as B2B-OldKAIExtractAPI — extract structured information from documents,
with workspace management, synchronous and asynchronous file and zip processing, prompt-driven extraction and per-workspace
API keys. The largest published surface at 92 paths.
humanURL: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/apis/84ffd55f-61ba-4918-8105-887fdcb88ff6/overview
baseURL: https://gateway.api.kuehne-nagel.com/oldkaiextractapi/0.1.0
tags:
- Documents
- AI
- Document Extraction
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/kuehne-nagel-kai-document-extract-v0-1-0-openapi.json
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/
common:
- type: Website
url: https://www.kuehne-nagel.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://portal.api.kuehne-nagel.com/devportal/
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.kuehne-nagel.com/digital-services/data-integration
- type: Documentation
url: https://mykn.kuehne-nagel.com/help-center/connectivity
- type: Portal
url: https://mykn.kuehne-nagel.com/
- type: SignUp
url: https://www.kuehne-nagel.com/contact/digital-data-integration
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/kuehne-nagel
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kuehne-nagel
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com