# Kuehne+Nagel **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/kuehne-nagel/ **Website:** https://www.kuehne-nagel.com/ **APIs profiled:** 17 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. ## Kin Score — 23.9 / 100 (emerging) Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 23.9). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 64.8 | | Contract Quality | 50.1 | | Governance | 0.0 | | Contract Governance | 0.0 | | Operational Transparency | 2.6 | | Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 | | Commercial Clarity | 13.2 | | Access Clarity | 13.2 | ## Agent readiness — 23.7 (agent-aware) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | no | | Reversibility Documented | no | | MCP Server | no | | Auth Clarity | bearer | | Idempotency | no | | Error Semantics | verified | | OpenAPI Examples | partial | | Rate Limit Signal | no | | Event Surface Described | no | | Agent Skills | no | | Well Known Catalog | no | | Consent Identity | no | | Agent Card | no | | Dry Run Mode | no | | Delegated Identity | no | | Protected Resource Metadata | no | | Dynamic Client Registration | no | | Agentic Commerce | no | ## APIs (17) - **Kuehne+Nagel ShipmentTracking API** — 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 ... - **Kuehne+Nagel ContainerTracking API** — 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... - **Kuehne+Nagel OrderTracking API** — 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... - **Kuehne+Nagel RealTimeVisibility-Tracking API** — Read cargo items and their telemetry readings for real-time visibility. Two GET operations, polled; no subscription or push channel is published. - **Kuehne+Nagel BookingAir API** — 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... - **Kuehne+Nagel BookingRoad API** — A service for consumers to book road shipments, with master-data category lookups and a document upload operation alongside booking creation. - **Kuehne+Nagel OrderBooking API** — 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. - **Kuehne+Nagel PurchaseOrderManagement API** — 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. - **Kuehne+Nagel eSOPPurchaseOrderConfiguration API** — 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... - **Kuehne+Nagel OceanEventInbox API** — Lets service providers submit container equipment events for shipments booked with Kuehne+Nagel, following Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA) standards. Inbound only ... - **Kuehne+Nagel ShipmentEventIntegration API** — Validates and accepts incoming shipment event entries from third parties. Inbound only; the specification names a third-party application as the intended publisher. - **Kuehne+Nagel ExternalShipmentIntegration API** — 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... - **Kuehne+Nagel IntermodalTransportExecution API** — 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... - **Kuehne+Nagel ShipmentDocumentManagement API v3** — 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... - **Kuehne+Nagel ShipmentDocumentManagement API v2** — 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... - **Kuehne+Nagel B2B-CustomsEDI API** — 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... - **Kuehne+Nagel KAI Document Extract API** — Published in the developer portal as B2B-OldKAIExtractAPI — extract structured information from documents, with workspace management, synchronous and asynchronous file and zip p... ## Tags Logistics, Supply Chain, Switzerland, Freight Forwarding, Ocean Freight, Container Shipping, Air Cargo, Road Freight, Customs, Trade Compliance, Track and Trace, Contract Logistics, Standards --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/kuehne-nagel/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.