Sailing Schedule MCP Server

Compare ocean sailing schedules, transit times, and carrier on-time reliability across 60+ carriers from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client.

SchedulesMCP is an ocean-freight sailing-schedule MCP server that lets an AI assistant find sailings and rank shipping lines before you book. It covers 60+ carriers, 72,000+ forward sailings, and 5,000+ point-to-point lanes across 255 ports. Carrier reliability is derived from observed actual-vs-scheduled arrivals across 4,200+ scored ocean port calls — not carrier promises. It runs as a hosted remote server, so there is nothing to self-host.

Ask your AI: "Compare Shanghai→Rotterdam carriers by reliability" or "What's the median transit time for Maersk on CNSHA→USLAX?"

Coverage

• 60+ ocean carriers ranked head-to-head on any lane (Maersk, MSC, CMA CGM, COSCO, Hapag-Lloyd, ONE, Evergreen, HMM, Yang Ming, ZIM, and more)
• 72,000+ forward sailings — observed and derived upcoming departures
• 5,000+ point-to-point lanes across 255 ports (UN/LOCODE)
• On-time reliability scored from 4,200+ observed actual-vs-scheduled port calls, with median / p90 transit-time distributions

Sister product to TrackingMCP (ocean container tracking) and LoadingMCP (container load planning).

Tools

Tool	What it does
compare_lanes	Rank carriers serving an origin→destination port pair by on-time reliability and transit time. Use this to decide which line to book.
carrier_reliability	On-time performance and delay distribution for a specific carrier (by SCAC), optionally on a given lane.
transit_time	Observed transit-time distribution (median / p90, in days) for a carrier on an origin→destination lane.
find_sailings	Observed and derived upcoming departures on an origin→destination lane, with carrier and frequency.
port_reliability	Congestion and dwell signals for a port (UN/LOCODE): average wait and vessels at anchor.

Quick connect

The server is hosted at https://mcp.schedulesmcp.com/mcp. Try it with zero signup using the public demo key smcp_demo_public (synthetic demo data; try lanes CNSHA→NLRTM or CNSHA→USLAX).

Claude Desktop

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ocean-schedules": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.schedulesmcp.com/mcp",
               "--header", "Authorization: Bearer smcp_demo_public"]
    }
  }
}

Cursor / Windsurf / VS Code (native HTTP MCP)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ocean-schedules": {
      "url": "https://mcp.schedulesmcp.com/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer smcp_demo_public" }
    }
  }
}

Replace smcp_demo_public with a key from your dashboard for full coverage. Don't add "type": "streamable-http" — Claude Desktop rejects unknown config fields; Cursor/Windsurf infer transport from url. Registry ID: io.github.lxxmng/ocean-schedules.

Example prompts

• "Compare Shanghai→Rotterdam carriers by reliability."
• "Which line is most on-time from CNSHA to USLAX?"
• "What's Maersk's on-time performance on the transpacific?"
• "Give me the median and p90 transit time for CMA CGM from Ningbo to Los Angeles."
• "Show upcoming sailings from Shanghai to Rotterdam."
• "How congested is the port of Rotterdam right now?"

Endpoint

• Remote: https://mcp.schedulesmcp.com/mcp
• Health: https://mcp.schedulesmcp.com/health

Links

• Product: schedulesmcp.com
• Sister product: trackingmcp.com

License

MIT