Yang Ming Container Tracking: Container or B/L Number

Booked with Airlift? Track a Yang Ming container or house B/L

You'll find both numbers on your Airlift booking confirmation.

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CarrierYang Ming Marine Transport Corporation

SCACYMJAthe carrier code on the master bill of lading and in schedule feeds

Yang Ming's own trackerhttps://www.yangming.com/en/esolution/cargo_trackingaccepts container number, bill of lading number, booking number

Airlift milestones for Yang Ming bookingsEntered by the Airlift operations team from Yang Ming's notices and terminal updates.

On Airlift SealanesNo Yang Ming page yet: the schedule feed behind Sealanes doesn't carry Yang Ming sailings. Browse the carriers it does cover →

Yang Ming number formats: container, bill of lading and booking

Which number goes in which tracker

An NVOCC shipment has two bills of lading. The master bill is issued by Yang Ming to Airlift and carries Yang Ming's numbering. The house bill is issued by Airlift to the shipper; its number is on your Airlift booking confirmation.

The Airlift tracker finds the house bill and the container number. Yang Ming's tracker finds its own master bill, its booking number and the container number. Yang Ming's Cargo Tracking takes a container, B/L or booking number in one box, several at a time, without a login.

Container numbers

A container number has eleven characters: a four-letter owner prefix ending in U, six serial digits and a check digit. It's printed on the container door and on the booking confirmation.

The prefix names whoever owns the container, which may be a leasing company rather than Yang Ming, so one Yang Ming shipment can move in containers with different prefixes. Copy the number from the container or the booking instead of guessing the prefix.

Yang Ming's own containers carry the owner prefix YMLU. That did not change when the SCAC moved to YMJA, so a YMLU container number and a YMJA bill of lading belong to the same carrier.

Bill of lading and booking numbers

Yang Ming's tracker finds a bill of lading by its number alone or with Yang Ming's carrier code, YMJA, in front of it, and shows the SCAC YMJA beside the result. YMJA replaced YMLU as Yang Ming's SCAC on 1 October 2023.

What the tracking statuses mean

Carriers, terminals and the Airlift timeline use different words for the same events. This table maps each one to where it shows on the Airlift tracker.

Status	What it means	On the Airlift timeline
Gate in	The loaded container has been received at the origin terminal (or an inland depot) and is waiting for its ship.	Gate In, ICD Gate In, Port Gate In
Loaded / on board	The container has been lifted onto the vessel. The on-board date is the date the bill of lading is issued against.	Load on (vessel)
Discharged	The container has been lifted off the vessel at a port, either at a transshipment hub or at the final port of discharge.	Discharge / Arrived at port
Available for pick-up	A terminal status, not a carrier one: the box has been discharged, the customs release and the carrier release are in, and any terminal holds are cleared, so a trucker can collect it. This tracker shows the customs release and the truck load; the terminal availability status is on the terminal system.	Customs Clearance, then Load On Truck
Empty return	The consignee has emptied the container and returned it to the depot the carrier named. It closes the detention period.	Empty return to Container Yard

Every milestone on the Airlift timeline, in journey order

Booking Requested. Airlift has received the booking; the request date is the first event on the timeline.
Container Picked up. The empty container has been collected from the carrier depot for stuffing at origin.
Gate In / ICD Gate In / Port Gate In. The loaded container has entered the inland container depot or the port terminal at origin. On this tracker the ICD and port gate-ins are shown as separate events when the box moves through both.
Load on (vessel), with voyage number. The container is on board the named ship. On a transshipment routing each leg has its own load event, so the vessel name can change along the way.
Discharge / Arrived at port. The container has been landed at a port: at a transshipment hub it is Discharge followed by the next Load on; at the port of discharge it is Arrived at port. Before the actual date is known the event reads Est. Arrival or Revised Est. Arrival.
Customs Clearance. The US entry has been released; recorded when the broker confirms release.
Load On Rail / Arrived at Rail ramp / Unloaded from Rail. Shown only when the final destination is inland and the carrier moves the box by rail from the port of discharge.
Load On Truck. The container has left the terminal or rail ramp on a truck for delivery.
Delivered / Est.Delivery. The container has reached the consignee (or the estimated date, before it does). Where the customer collects the box the event is Customer Pick up instead.
Empty return to Container Yard. The emptied container has been returned to the carrier depot. Demurrage and detention clocks are measured against the discharge and pick-up dates that precede this.

Estimated dates come from Yang Ming's schedule at the last update and can change without notice. An event marked Est. or Revised Est. hasn't happened yet.

Yang Ming tracking FAQs

How do I track a Yang Ming container?

For a Yang Ming container that was not booked through Airlift, use Yang Ming's own tracker (linked at the top of this page), which accepts container number, bill of lading number or booking number. If the shipment was booked through Airlift USA, enter the container number or the Airlift house bill of lading number in the tracker above and press Track; the timeline shows every milestone Airlift holds for the box. The Airlift tracker resolves shipments booked through Airlift USA and the Airlift group offices on any carrier; it does not query Yang Ming for a number Airlift never booked.

Can I track a Yang Ming shipment by bill of lading number?

What does the Yang Ming container number look like?

Is Yang Ming container tracking free?

What do the statuses on a Yang Ming shipment mean?

My Yang Ming container shows no result on the Airlift tracker. Why?

Where do the Yang Ming milestones on the Airlift tracker come from?

Do I need to track ISF separately for a Yang Ming import?

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Terms on this page:Bill of Lading (BOL)Master Bill of Lading House Bill of Lading Booking Confirmation Arrival Notice

Reviewed September 2026. Number formats and tracker scope come from Yang Ming's own pages: Yang Ming — Cargo Tracking; Yang Ming eService notice — SCAC YMJA. Milestone names are the Airlift tracker's own. Sealanes counts come from the Sealanes schedule snapshot.

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Yang Ming container tracking by container or B/L number