The shipment detail page

The shipment detail page is the single place for everything about one voyage: who's on it, what it's costing you, where it is, and what's changed. This article walks through each part of the page so you know what every button does before you click it.

Before you start

• You need Shipments view permission to open the page.
• You need Shipments edit permission to use any of the action buttons.

The header

At the top of the page you see:

• Vessel name as the main heading.
• Status pill, coloured to match the shipment's current status. See the statuses article for what each colour means.
• Type: either RoRo or Container.

The action bar

Four buttons, visible to admins and editors:

• Edit shipment opens a sheet with every field on the shipment. Use this when you want to change several fields at once.
• Update ETA is a shortcut for changing only the ETA. It writes the previous and new date to the ETA history.
• Update status is a shortcut for moving the shipment to its next stage without touching anything else.
• Delete shipment removes the shipment after a confirmation. Vehicles stay; their link to this shipment drops.

Vehicles on this shipment

Every vehicle attached to the shipment shows here with a photo thumbnail, make/model/year, stock number, and current stage. A remove button sits at the end of each row.

When no vehicles are attached you see an empty state. To add some, use the Add vehicles button.

Adding vehicles

Add vehicles opens a sheet listing vehicles currently at the Purchased stage and not already on this shipment. You can search within the sheet by stock number, make, model, or VIN, and you can multi-select to attach several in one submit.

Only Purchased-stage vehicles appear in this list. Vehicles that are already in transit, at the workshop, or delivered are not shown, because moving them onto a voyage wouldn't match their actual state.

ETA history

A chronological list of every ETA change on this shipment, newest first. Each entry shows the previous ETA, the new ETA, the timestamp, and the summary you entered. This is internal context for your team; it's also what makes a "has the ETA changed again?" question easy to answer.

Costs

Costs are grouped by category (container shipping, port fees, loading fees, maritime insurance, misc), each with a subtotal, plus a running total in your organisation's accounting currency. Add cost opens the add sheet; each row has an edit and a delete icon.

For what each category is for and how a cost gets split across the vehicles, read Recording shipment costs.

When a shipment is Released

Most edits lock once you mark a shipment Released. Vehicles stay linked so your reporting and audit trail stay intact, costs are preserved, and you can still view everything. This is the normal way to close out a completed voyage.

Who can see and do what

• View permission opens the page but hides the action bar.
• Edit permission adds Edit shipment, Update ETA, Update status, Delete, Add vehicles, Remove, Add cost, and cost edit/delete.