# MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/msc-cargo/  
**Website:** https://www.msc.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

MSC (Mediterranean Shipping Company) is a privately-held, family-owned global container shipping and logistics group headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, founded in 1970 by Gianluigi Aponte and now led by CEO Soren Toft under the Aponte-Diamant family. MSC is the world's largest container shipping line by fleet size and capacity, operating roughly 900 cargo vessels with a combined intake of about 7 million TEU and controlling more than a fifth of global container capacity as of late 2025. The carrier offers a portfolio of digital shipment-management products through its myMSC e-business platform — including Instant Quote for online rate generation, online booking, electronic Bill of Lading and Sea Waybill issuance via eDocs, container Track & Trace, and the myMSC mobile app — and exposes a Direct Integrations program for shippers, freight forwarders, and NVOCCs that combines REST APIs and EDI message exchange. The MSC Developer Portal (developerportal.msc.com), hosted on Microsoft Azure API Management, publishes documentation and EDI message implementation guides for products such as the DCSA-aligned Track & Trace API (v1.2 and v2.2), Booking, Booking Confirmation (X12 301 / EDIFACT IFTMIN), and Shipping Instructions, alongside ANSI X12 and EDIFACT IFTMIN / IFTMBC / COPRAR reference documents. MSC also runs direct-integration partnerships with INTTRA, Infor Nexus, and CargoSmart. API and EDI access is not self-service: prospective integrators must submit a Direct Integration request, and fees may apply.

## Kin Score — 6.9 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 6.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| 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 |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Msc Cargo Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Shipping, Container Shipping, Ocean Freight, Logistics, Supply Chain, Maritime, Cargo, Bill of Lading, Track and Trace, Booking, Instant Quote, EDI, EDIFACT, IFTMIN, DCSA, Direct Integrations, myMSC, eDocs, Geneva

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/msc-cargo/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.