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can the information of distance between cities be provided by Searouter ?
below is the example scenario:
- Our Departure point of goods shipment is Antwerp (Belgium); Destination is Sydney (Australia)
- products can be shipped in 2 ways > by AIR and by SEA
- AIR shipping means calculating the Direct distance between Antwerp and Sydney (17000 km)
- SEA shipping means the journey will go through: (Antwerp > South Africa > Sydney ;
- here distance travelled by the ship will be (12000 for antwerp to south africa+12000 for south africa to australia=24000 km)
- in Phase 1, we want to determine distances between Departure and destination point; and in Phase 2 determine the carbon emission amount.
- Can SeaRoutes help us in Phase 1 for determining the distance between cities as mentioned in above example?
Hello, yes we can help.
You may use the Shipment API to obtain distances per mode, and complete Phase 1 and 2 at the same time.
If for example you pass this payload
{
"orders": [
{
"type": "parcel",
"weight": 100
}
],
"transportChainElements": [
{
"type": "leg",
"from": "BEANR",
"to": "AUSYD",
"mode": "air"
}
]
}
the distance will appear in the response, under properties. You'll want to use the "used" one, in this case 16 809 km.
Same logic can be replicated with other modes - for ocean we recommend you pass the carrier information so that distances used are based on actual networks and not the shortest feasible distance that will go through the Red Sea.
Thanks Paul.
my user ID is : ashwin.kumar01@infosys.com
my trial API key is expired. i had written to support@searoutes.com to extend it; no action has been taken yet.
can you please help to extend the API key? we want to perform some testing based on the inputs you gave.
I have reactivated your key - please reach out to us if you have any further questions
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