Matson Tracking. Free & Online.

Matson, Inc. describes itself as a US-owned and operated transportation services company headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii. Its subsidiary Matson Navigation Company serves Hawaii, Alaska, Guam, Micronesia and the South Pacific, with an expedited service from China to Southern California.

This page covers ocean containers only. The Track menu on matson.com keeps separate trackers for commercial and personal vehicles. Matson Logistics, the group's rail, highway brokerage and forwarding arm, is described on its own, and TrackParcel searches only container numbers on the line's ocean tracker.

The tracking form has three choices, Container, Booking and Bill of Lading, and TrackParcel uses the Container search alone. Type the four-letter prefix, whose last letter is U, J or Z, and the six serial digits; adding the check digit is optional. Boxes owned by Matson begin MATU, and given one of those, Auto-Detect names Matson only.

For a box with another owner code it is not suggested, so choose it by hand. The search box removes spaces, hyphens and a pasted label first; a booking or bill of lading reference without the container shape then stops with a not-found answer, unsent.

The tracker lists each movement event under Date & Time, Location and Status, and TrackParcel shows those three fields, newest first. It also takes the origin and destination ports and the net weight in pounds. Shipper, consignee and any other party in the record are never read.

Its page prints every event time on a Pacific clock and notes that events are recorded in local time. TrackParcel therefore reads each clock in the zone of the place it names when that is one of the line's ports it knows, and as Pacific time elsewhere. Every time is then shown converted to IST, labelled IST.

Asked about a container it has no record of, the tracker sends back an empty list, and the page then reads unable to find a shipment matching your search request. TrackParcel treats it as not found.

If the tracking page answers that the lookup is not a valid request, or the page has changed, TrackParcel shows an error rather than an unknown box. A refusal by matson.com, a failure on its side or a lost connection shows as unavailable instead. Too many requests means a temporary limit to TrackParcel, and the page itself asks for another try in 5 minutes.

The Shipping menu lists Hawaii, Guam & Micronesia, Alaska, China, Alaska – Asia, Japan and South Pacific services. TrackParcel knows the local zone of Hawaiian ports such as Honolulu, Hilo and Kahului, Alaskan ports such as Anchorage, Kodiak and Dutch Harbor, Guam and Saipan, and Shanghai, Ningbo, Xiamen, Yokohama and Naha.

A place written as City, XX is placed by that two-letter code alone, such as HI or AK, and as Pacific time when the code is not one TrackParcel knows. Any other place, including ambiguous names such as Portland or Richmond, is read as Pacific time.

The Contact Us page sends shipping questions to a Customer Service Center, split into Hawaii, Guam and Micronesia service, Alaska and Alaska–Asia service, and China service, with a form for an Account Specialist to get in touch. Ask the team for your trade lane about a booking, or about a container the tracker no longer shows. Have the container, booking or bill of lading number ready.