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Tropical.

US Caribbean carrier founded 1963 in West Palm Beach, Florida, the largest tenant of the Port of Palm Beach.

Shipping lineSCAC TSCWCaribbeanLatin AmericaAtlantic
Trade areas 3 Caribbean, Latin America
Directory rank #228 of 235 in the directory

Everything for Tropical in one place

Track a box, pick a sailing, price the lane and count the free days. Every tool below works for Tropical boxes and lanes.

Where is my Tropical container?

Container, bill of lading or booking number.

Live AIS position and arrival forecast. No sign-up for a single lookup.

Tropical sailing schedules

Upcoming sailings by lane, with transit time and measured on-time reliability.

Freight rates on Tropical lanes

Market prices for 20GP, 40GP and 40HC on a port pair, from the carriers that sail it.

UN/LOCODE, five letters.

Tropical demurrage and detention

Free days run out quietly. Navo24 counts them on every Tropical box you track and warns before charges start.

Ships and vessel positions

Specs, current position and port calls for the container ships on our schedules, Tropical vessels included.

Is Tropical on time?

On-time performance measured from real arrivals against schedule, carrier by carrier, updated as boxes land.

Plan the load

Fit your cargo into a Tropical 20ft, 40ft or 40ft HC in 3D before you book.

About Tropical

US Caribbean carrier founded 1963 in West Palm Beach, Florida, the largest tenant of the Port of Palm Beach. Tropical’s bread and butter is refrigerated food; groceries and perishables shipped from Florida and Canada to the islands.

Main trade areas: Caribbean, Latin America and Atlantic.

How to track a Tropical container

Every Tropical box carries an ISO 6346 number: four letters (the owner prefix), six digits and a check digit. Enter the container number, the bill of lading or the booking reference and Navo24 detects which one it is.

The tracker joins Tropical's own events (gate out, loaded, departed, transhipped, discharged) with the vessel's AIS position, so you see where the box is now, not where it was at the last port call.

Tropical schedules, rates and free time

Before booking, compare sailings on your lane by transit time and real on-time reliability across all carriers, Tropical included where it publishes schedules.

For the price, FreightRatesMCP shows market rates for 20GP, 40GP and 40HC on a port pair. After arrival, demurrage and detention start once Tropical's free time runs out, and Navo24 counts the days left on every box.

Tropical: questions shippers ask

What is the Tropical SCAC code?

Tropical's Standard Carrier Alpha Code is TSCW.

How do I track a Tropical container?

Paste the container, bill of lading or booking number into the tracking box on this page. No sign-up is needed for a single lookup.

Every Tropical box, one screen.