Electronic intermodal transportation shipping container security and tracking system for monitoring and reporting on the condition and precise location of sealed/enclosed shipment devices and their contents during transit from point of container stuffing to point of final deconsolidation, comprised of sensors for monitoring the conditions within the container, a data-processing controller with logging capability, for collecting, storing, and processing the sensor data and declaring alarms, a two-way communications device, which is capable of sending, receiving, and requesting data and text messages from inside the container, and an internal or external modem with antenna, which is capable of communicating locally as well as to and from remote communication interfaces, for indicating the precise location of the container and for passing and reporting status and alarms to hand-held or portal reading devices and to wireless cellular or satellite communications devices, which can then transmit information to a central monitoring and response location to be organized, authenticated, consolidated, processed, mapped, compared, and analyzed, in order to generate intelligence reports about a shipping container's physical status and security condition, for further communication through notification alerts and report deliveries, through database access to retrieve stored data, and through a user interface for viewing generated reports in a geographical context