Track any container moving through Cape Town and see the port's real activity: carriers calling, scheduled connections. Four independent lenses on every shipment.
To track a container through Cape Town, enter your container, bill of lading, or booking number at trackingmcp.com/ports/zacpt. TrackingMCP auto-detects the carrier and returns its milestones, the vessel's live AIS position, the published schedule, and a forecast ETA; one DCSA-normalised screen covering 241+ ocean carriers.
Any carrier calling Cape Town: we detect the line and format automatically.
Cape Town appears in 781 scheduled port calls in TrackingMCP's sailing database (January 2025 to June 2027 schedule window), with 8 carriers we track calling the port. Track any of them by container, bill of lading, or booking number.
ZACPT. The five-character UN/LOCODE (ZA for South Africa, plus CPT) identifies Cape Town in carrier schedules, booking confirmations, and tracking feeds worldwide.
Enter your container number, bill of lading, or booking reference in the search box above. TrackingMCP auto-detects the carrier and format, then returns live carrier events, the vessel's AIS position, and a forecast ETA. Your first shipment is free, no account needed to start.
Maritime Carrier Shipping (MACS), OOCL, Hapag-Lloyd lead the 8 carriers with scheduled sailings calling Cape Town in TrackingMCP's sailing database. Each line links to its own tracking page below.
Jakarta, Singapore, Durban, Antwerp, Qingdao, Rotterdam see the most scheduled sailings to and from Cape Town in TrackingMCP's sailing database.
Free time is set by each carrier's tariff for South Africa, not by the port. The TrackingMCP free-time reference lists published demurrage and detention free days for South Africa by carrier, and the tracker watches the free-time clock on every shipment.