Latin America → USA Shipment Tracker

The clock and the inspection: northbound fruit rides reefers against firm retail programs, USDA inspection at entry can hold a sensitive lot, and the seasonal surges (cherry season being the famous one) strain reefer plugs and equipment for everyone. Track inspection status as its own milestone — for this lane it's as decisive as the vessel ETA.

Published schedules say 5–12 days from Caribbean basin and Central America; 15–25 from South America's east coast. Reality adds origin dwell, destination clearance and the lane's specific friction (perishables dominate northbound (and get usda/fda attention at entry)). Your own log is the honest answer: after 15–20 shipments the actual door-to-door distribution — including the tail — is sitting in your CSV export.

Produce seasons set the rhythm — Chilean cherries (Dec–Jan air+sea sprint), Peruvian and Central American programs each claim their weeks. Peak behaviour to expect: space sells out earlier, rollover risk rises, rates firm, and the lane's chokepoints run hotter. Rows you add in those windows should carry earlier bookings and more conservative ETAs than the same route in the slack months.

Because lanes have personalities — different chokepoints, peaks and failure modes — and mixing them averages the signal away. A dedicated board per major lane keeps the dataset clean: this lane's transit distribution, this lane's exception causes, this lane's carrier ranking. That's the granularity rate negotiations and buffer-stock math actually need.