MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company
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.
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API Evangelist profiles MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company the way a machine reads it — 1 machine-readable artifact, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company scores 8.5/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
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Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company
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Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Company 7
The organization behind the API
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Other 11
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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