How many free days does COSCO Shipping give at Shanghai?

COSCO Shipping commonly bills one merged demurrage & detention clock at Shanghai, with roughly 5 free days on a 40' dry import container. The filed figure for your date of discharge governs.

Do weekends count against free time at Shanghai?

Calendar days; Chinese public holidays are rarely excluded.

What makes COSCO Shipping charges at Shanghai disputable?

COSCO and OOCL are separately filed despite the common group — check which brand issued the bill of lading. Export detention starts at empty pick-up, and Golden Week routinely eats the entire free period.

Free-Time Matrix/COSCO Shipping

COSCO Shipping free time at Shanghai

CNSHA · China. Export detention starts at empty pick-up, and Golden Week routinely eats the entire free period.

Carrier

Port of discharge

Container type

Direction

COSCO Shipping · Shanghai · 40' dry (GP) · import

Typical filing

Combined D&D free days

One continuous clock

Day counting

Calendar days

Weekends included

Demurrage clock starts: Discharge.
Detention clock starts: Gate-out.
Weekend & holiday policy: Calendar days; Chinese public holidays are rarely excluded.

Escalation after free time

Band	Chargeable days	Relative daily rate
Tier 1	1–7	1×
Tier 2	8–14	2×
Tier 3+	15+	3×

Bands are relative multipliers of the first chargeable day, not dollar rates — per-diem amounts are contract- and lane-specific. Use the carrier lookup below for the filed figure.

Last free day calculator

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Before you quote — watch for

COSCO and OOCL are separately filed despite the common group — check which brand issued the bill of lading.
Export detention starts at empty pick-up, and Golden Week routinely eats the entire free period.
This lane is commonly billed as one merged D&D clock. Two separate free periods do not apply — count one continuous window from discharge to empty return.

Derived from the carrier’s published tariff structure plus the prevailing local norm for this port. Your service contract overrides it. COSCO e-business tariff lookup

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