Get your P&O Ferries Freight bookings through an API

What you can build on P&O Freight

• Get a booking by waybill number

  Build this

  Finds one of your bookings in P&O Freight by its waybill number and reads its route, sailing, goods, vehicle, passengers and customs information.

  Takes

  Waybill number

  Returns

  Waybill number, route, sailing date and time, goods type, vehicle type, vehicle and trailer registration, passengers, customs references

• Get the sailing schedule for a route

  Build this

  Reads the Sailing Schedule page of one route, such as Hull - Europoort or Dover - Calais, which shows sailings for the next 2 weeks.

  Takes

  Route, date (optional)

  Returns

  Route, sailing date, departure time, arrival time

• Add customs information to a booking

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  Opens a booking by its waybill number and adds the customs information for the crossing, such as a GMR, a DUCR or MUCR, or an ENS MRN.

  Takes

  Waybill number, GMR, DUCR or MUCR, ENS MRN (each optional)

  Returns

  Waybill number, route, customs references saved

• Amend or cancel a booking

  Build this

  Opens a booking by its waybill number and amends it with the new details you give, or cancels it.

  Takes

  Waybill number, new booking details or cancel

  Returns

  Waybill number, route, sailing date and time, status

Automate P&O Freight with a workflow

A workflow runs your methods as one process, with nobody at the screen. A schedule or a call from your own system starts it, the steps run in order, and the result arrives in your inbox or in the systems you already use.

• Today's waybills still missing customs information

  Build this

  Starts

  When your transport system calls the workflow's webhook with the day's waybill numbers

  Step 1

  For each waybill number, get the booking and its customs references.

  Step 2

  Keep the bookings that have no GMR, DUCR or ENS MRN.

  Step 3

  Email you the list with waybill number, route, sailing date and time, and vehicle and trailer registration.

• Sailing schedule changes on your routes

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 6:00, London time

  Step 1

  For each route you name, get the sailing schedule for the next 2 weeks.

  Step 2

  Keep the sailings that changed or were not there on the last run.

  Step 3

  Post them to your planning system's webhook with route, date, departure and arrival time.

You can run a workflow by hand on every plan, Free included. Schedules and webhook triggers come with the paid plans, from $29 a month.

Once built, one call from your code

Once you have built a method, it is one POST to /v1/runs from your backend, or a tool an AI agent calls over MCP. This is what “Get a booking by waybill number” would look like.

curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "pofreight.com/get_booking",
    "input": {
      "waybill_number": "W7718204"
    }
  }'

{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "waybill_number": "W7718204",
    "route": "Hull - Europoort",
    "sailing_date_time": "2026-11-13T20:30:00+00:00",
    "goods_type": "General cargo",
    "vehicle_type": "Accompanied trailer",
    "vehicle_registration": "AB12 CDE",
    "trailer_registration": "C123456",
    "passengers": 1,
    "customs_references": {
      "gmr": "GMRA00000000X1",
      "ducr": null,
      "ens_mrn": null
    }
  }
}

An example with invented data, not a ready-made endpoint. The method exists in your organization once you build it, and its name, inputs and fields follow your request.

P&O Freight’s own options

P&O Ferries publishes a REST Freight API that creates, reads, amends and cancels bookings, takes Safety & Security information and returns sailing schedules. Access to its test and production environments, and the Bearer token, come from your P&O Ferries Business Partner. P&O Ferries said the older Freight EDI Gateway and Safety & Security REST API would stop working as of 1 June 2026.

Read on November 12, 2026: P&O Freight API documentation, Lynx booking video guides, P&O Freight registration.

Signing in to P&O Freight

P&O Freight signs you in with a username and password, then asks for a 6-digit verification code on a Check your phone screen, and lets you add a mobile number for text-message codes. Remember this device skips the code for 7 days. With Fous you sign in once through P&O Freight's own sign-in with your own account: the login is sealed with AES-256 and never returned by the API or written to logs.

Worth knowing

Credit account holders book online

Pay & Go registration and booking are shown as currently unavailable. Credit account holders book any route in line with their contract and pay after sailing. More users can be added to an existing account.

Some loads are not booked online

The FAQ says live animals and dangerous goods cannot be booked online. Abnormal loads are booked through a freight office, with paperwork at least 24 hours before travel.

Schedules cover 2 weeks

Each route's Sailing Schedule page shows sailings for 2 weeks from today, so a schedule check looks no further ahead than that.

Dover - Calais runs on space charter

On Dover - Calais you are checked in on the next sailing with space, on a P&O or Irish Ferries ship. Check-in closes 30 minutes before departure, 60 minutes for dangerous goods.

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