Portbase
Portbase is the Port Community System (PCS) organisation of the Port of Rotterdam Authority and the Port of Amsterdam, digitally connecting the Dutch port community - terminals, shipping companies, transporters, forwarders and government - so that goods and data flows through the Dutch ports and connected chains run efficiently, sustainably and securely. It offers web services and system interfaces (APIs, AS2, sFTP, SMTP and webhooks) for services such as Cargo Controller Import/Export, notifications and cargo declarations, documented in its support centre.
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API Evangelist profiles Portbase the way a machine reads it — 71 machine-readable artifacts across 4 APIs, 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 — Portbase scores 57.1/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 38/100 (agent ready). 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
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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How we profile Portbase
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Portbase. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 32
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Portbase Bookings API
Manage and retrieve bookings for an organisation
Portbase Cargo Controller Import API
The Cargo Controller Import API API from Portbase — 2 operation(s) for cargo controller import api.
Portbase Commercial Release API
The Commercial Release API API from Portbase — 6 operation(s) for commercial release api.
Portbase Consignments API
This is a API for sending Bill of Ladings.
Portbase Event API
The Event API API from Portbase — 1 operation(s) for event api.
Portbase Forwarder API
The Forwarder API API from Portbase — 3 operation(s) for forwarder api.
Portbase Harbour Dues API
The Harbour Dues API API from Portbase — 1 operation(s) for harbour dues api.
Portbase Integral Planning API
This endpoint can be used by the integral planner Nextlogic to update the planning information.
Portbase Operator API - handlings API
API for the declarant to create, update, move, detach or cancel attached handlings (handlings that are connected to a visit and voyage).
Portbase Operator API - rail-only API
The Operator API - rail-only API from Portbase — 1 operation(s) for operator api - rail-only.
Portbase Operator API - road-only API
The Operator API - road-only API from Portbase — 4 operation(s) for operator api - road-only.
Portbase Operator API - visits API
Endpoint to create new visits by a declarant, update, move or cancel them. A special operation to indicate the load-discharge list is finalized is also available, to let the ter...
Portbase Operator API - voyages API
API for the declarant to create new voyages, update or cancel them. Special operations are also available to indicate that the voyage contains visits where restrictions apply (i...
Portbase Organisation Data API
Api defining the operations a terminal/barge operator can do to retrieve organisation configuration. Basically these operations retrieve configuration data such as bollards, fix...
Portbase Port Authority API
The Port Authority API API from Portbase — 18 operation(s) for port authority api.
Portbase Port Call Optimization API
The Port Call Optimization API API from Portbase — 1 operation(s) for port call optimization api.
Portbase Port to Port API
The Port to Port API API from Portbase — 3 operation(s) for port to port api.
Portbase Reference Data API
Portbase uses reference data within the API calls for instance barges, shipping companies, container sizetypes etc. With this Reference Data API you can retrieve the data to be ...
Portbase Road API V1 API
Deprecated Road API. Please upgrade to Operator API endpoints.
Portbase Road API V2 API
Deprecated Road API. Please upgrade to Operator API endpoints.
Portbase Secure Chain API
The Secure Chain API API from Portbase — 2 operation(s) for secure chain api.
Portbase Ship Operator API - other API
The Ship Operator API - other API from Portbase — 5 operation(s) for ship operator api - other.
Portbase Ship Operator API - terminal planning API
This api can be used for settling the terminal planning with the stevedores.
The happy flow consists preferably of the next steps:
- declare terminal plannings
Portbase Ship Operator API - visit API
The Ship Operator API - visit API from Portbase — 6 operation(s) for ship operator api - visit.
Portbase Ship to Shore API
The Ship to Shore API API from Portbase — 2 operation(s) for ship to shore api.
Portbase Terminal API
The Terminal API API from Portbase — 1 operation(s) for terminal api.
Portbase Terminal API - handlings API
Api defining the operations a terminal can do for handlings. Basically these operations supply feedback to the declarant about the status of the handling.
Portbase Terminal API - visits API
Api defining the operations a terminal can do to respond on visit requests from the declarant. The terminal supplies feedback if a visit is accepted and can be planned, rejected...
Portbase Tracking API
This API can be used to receive **real-time** updates about the voyages, visits and (detached) handlings. To achieve these real-time updates the API uses a mechanism called 'lon...
Portbase Traction Supplier API
The Traction Supplier API API from Portbase — 1 operation(s) for traction supplier api.
Portbase Waste Collector API
The Waste Collector API API from Portbase — 4 operation(s) for waste collector api.
Portbase Webhook Events API
The Webhook Events API from Portbase — 0 operation(s) for webhook events.
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Agent Skills 9
An agent skill packages the how-to for driving these APIs from an assistant — the prompts, the sequence, the guardrails — so the knowledge to use the API travels with it.
Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.
portbase-bookings-subscribe-and-retrieve
AGENT SKILLdeclare-a-barge-voyage
AGENT SKILLdeclare-a-vessel-visit
AGENT SKILLfile-a-bill-of-lading-consignment
AGENT SKILLportbase-forward-shipment
AGENT SKILLprenotify-a-road-container-visit
AGENT SKILLsubscribe-to-an-export-booking
AGENT SKILLtrack-bills-of-lading-for-import
AGENT SKILLportbase-track-cargo-import
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Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Portbase Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSEvent Specifications 1
Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Portbase Webhooks
ASYNCAPISemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Portbase Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Portbase API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 20
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
ApiOrganisationBL
JSON SCHEMABatchTrackRequest
JSON SCHEMABookingDossier
JSON SCHEMAInputCommercialReleaseData
JSON SCHEMABezoekschipOrganisation
JSON SCHEMAGetAnyUpdates
JSON SCHEMAVisit
JSON SCHEMAGetVisitUpdates
JSON SCHEMAContainerListItem
JSON SCHEMAEquipmentCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMAEquipmentUpdateRequest
JSON SCHEMAGetHinterlandUpdates
JSON SCHEMAGetRoadVoyageUpdates
JSON SCHEMAImportConsignment
JSON SCHEMAShipment
JSON SCHEMASubscribeDto
JSON SCHEMASubscriptionId
JSON SCHEMATerminal
JSON SCHEMATrackResponse
JSON SCHEMATransferRequest
JSON SCHEMAScroll within the panel for all 20 ·
Security Posture 3
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.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Portbase — 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 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Agent Surfaces 3
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 9
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Access & Security 5
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 5
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 4
The organization behind the API
Other 3
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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