Nowlun

Nowlun is a digital freight-forwarding platform serving the Middle East and North Africa that lets businesses compare instant ocean-freight quotes from 30+ shipping lines, book FCL and bulk sea shipments, arrange inland trucking to and from ports, track cargo through transit, and handle customs clearance. Beyond its shipper-facing web application, Nowlun operates a live, OAuth-protected Model Context Protocol (MCP) server at https://nowlun.com/mcp, secured with RFC 8414 authorization-server and RFC 9728 protected-resource discovery (Authorization Code + PKCE, "mcp" scope). Surfaced as a 500 Global portfolio company and enriched into the API Evangelist network.

Nowlun publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Logistics, Freight Forwarding, Shipping, and Supply Chain.

Nowlun’s developer surface includes authentication, signup flow, engineering blog, support, and 7 more developer resources.

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16.9/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 23/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

AccessSelf serve

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Company Logistics Freight Forwarding Shipping Supply Chain Ocean Freight Customs MENA MCP

Kin Score

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scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

Composite quality — 16.9/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.2 / 17

Access Clarity 4.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.8 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.8 / 15

Agent readiness — 23/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Nowlun MCP Server

OAuth-protected Model Context Protocol server exposing Nowlun freight-forwarding capabilities to agents. Requires an access token holding the "mcp" scope.

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Nowlun MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Nowlun Holding Corp Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Nowlun Holding Corp Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Nowlun Holding Corp Scopes

3 scopes · authorizationCode

3 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

WellKnown

WellKnown

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: nowlun-holding-corp
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/nowlun-holding-corp.png
name: Nowlun
description: Nowlun is a digital freight-forwarding platform serving the Middle East and North Africa that lets businesses
  compare instant ocean-freight quotes from 30+ shipping lines, book FCL and bulk sea shipments, arrange inland trucking to
  and from ports, track cargo through transit, and handle customs clearance. Beyond its shipper-facing web application, Nowlun
  operates a live, OAuth-protected Model Context Protocol (MCP) server at https://nowlun.com/mcp, secured with RFC 8414 authorization-server
  and RFC 9728 protected-resource discovery (Authorization Code + PKCE, "mcp" scope). Surfaced as a 500 Global portfolio company
  and enriched into the API Evangelist network.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nowlun-holding-corp/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Logistics
- Freight Forwarding
- Shipping
- Supply Chain
- Ocean Freight
- Customs
- MENA
- MCP
tags_raw:
- Company
- Logistics
- Freight Forwarding
- Shipping
- Supply Chain
- Sea Freight
- Customs
- MENA
- MCP
apis:
- name: Nowlun MCP Server
  description: OAuth-protected Model Context Protocol server exposing Nowlun freight-forwarding capabilities to agents. Requires
    an access token holding the "mcp" scope.
  humanURL: https://nowlun.com
  baseURL: https://nowlun.com/mcp
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/nowlun-holding-corp-mcp.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/nowlun-holding-corp-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/nowlun-holding-corp-scopes.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/nowlun-holding-corp-mcp.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/nowlun-holding-corp-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/nowlun-holding-corp-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/nowlun-holding-corp-scopes.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/nowlun-holding-corp-domain-security.yml
- type: SignUp
  url: https://nowlun.com/en/users/register/sign_up
- type: Login
  url: https://nowlun.com/en/users/login
- type: Blog
  url: https://nowlun.com/en/resources
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://nowlun.com/privacy
- type: Support
  url: https://wa.me/201014176458
- type: Website
  url: https://nowlun.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 5
  pass: local-v1
x-legal-name: Nowlun Holding Corp.

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