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ANL

SCAC ANNU · Melbourne, Australia · founded 1956 · Ocean Alliance

ANL (legal entity Australian National Line Pty Ltd.) is a regional specialist headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1956, the line has spent 70 years building out its container service network and today operates a fleet of 35 vessels under the SCAC code ANNU. Total operated capacity stands near 85,000 TEU, placing the carrier among the recognised operators on its core trade lanes. The company holds intermodal equipment under 3 registered ISO 6346 owner prefixes, which appear on every box it owns or long-term leases.

ANL is most active on the following corridors: Oceania, Intra-Asia, Pacific Islands. Through its membership of the Ocean Alliance, the carrier shares vessel capacity with CMA CGM, COSCO Shipping, Evergreen Marine, OOCL on East-West services. Direct customer contact is available via +61 3 9621 1888 or the carrier's web portal at anl.com.au.

ANL container prefixes

Every intermodal container carries an ISO 6346 owner code — three letters identifying the owner, plus a single category letter (almost always U for freight containers). These four-letter prefixes are the fastest way to identify which carrier controls a given box. ANL has the following registered prefixes recorded in the BIC database. If a container in your possession begins with any of these codes, the box is owned by or leased on long term to ANL.

To track a container under one of these prefixes, contact the carrier directly using the bill-of-lading number or container number. Most ocean carriers expose a public tracking endpoint on their website that accepts either format. ANL publishes its tracking page under the main anl.com.au domain.

ANL sample transit times

Indicative point-to-point transit times for services on which ANL appears in rotation. Actual ETAs vary with vessel rotation, port congestion, weather and trans-shipment patterns. We update these figures every quarter against published carrier schedules.

OriginDestinationTransitFrequencyCorridor
Sydney, Australia Shanghai, China 16 days Weekly Oceania-Asia
Melbourne, Australia Singapore 12 days Multiple weekly Oceania-Asia

How to track a ANL container

Tracking a ANL container starts with confirming the prefix. Look at the container's left-hand corner casting plate or the painted code on the door — the four-letter ISO 6346 owner code (e.g. ANNU) is followed by six numeric digits and a single check digit. If the prefix matches one in the list above, the box is on a ANL bill of lading. Visit anl.com.au, navigate to the carrier's tracking or "track and trace" portal, and paste the full container number. The portal will return current vessel position, the next scheduled port call, the estimated time of arrival (ETA) and the most recent equipment events such as gate-in, loaded, discharged and gate-out.

If the carrier portal does not return a result, the most likely causes are: the container has not yet been gate-in at the origin terminal, the bill of lading number is in a different format (check whether the system expects an MBL versus an HBL), or the box is moving on a partner alliance vessel rather than a ANL hull. In the last case, the prefix still resolves to ANL as equipment owner but the schedule data lives with the operating carrier. ANL's customer service can normally cross-reference the booking and route you to the correct alliance partner. Reach the carrier on +61 3 9621 1888 during European business hours.

Related ocean carriers

Operators most often compared with ANL on overlapping trade lanes: