How many free days does Hapag-Lloyd give at Santos?

Roughly 5 demurrage free days and 4 detention free days on a 40' dry import container at Santos. Reefer and special equipment are shorter, and your service contract overrides the tariff.

Do weekends count against free time at Santos?

Calendar days; Brazilian filings commonly bill in escalating 10-day blocks.

What makes Hapag-Lloyd charges at Santos disputable?

Hapag files demurrage and detention as strictly separate clocks — a combined line on the invoice is itself a red flag. Sobrestadia is billed in blocks, not per day — one day over a block boundary costs a full block.

Free-Time Matrix/Hapag-Lloyd

Hapag-Lloyd free time at Santos

BRSSZ · Brazil. Sobrestadia is billed in blocks, not per day — one day over a block boundary costs a full block.

Carrier

Port of discharge

Container type

Direction

Hapag-Lloyd · Santos · 40' dry (GP) · import

Typical filing

Demurrage free days

Box inside the terminal

Detention free days

Equipment outside the terminal

Day counting

Calendar days

Weekends included

Demurrage clock starts: Discharge date, counted from the day after in most filings.
Detention clock starts: Gate-out; ends on empty return to a nominated depot.
Weekend & holiday policy: Calendar days; Brazilian filings commonly bill in escalating 10-day blocks.

Escalation after free time

Band	Chargeable days	Relative daily rate
Block 1	1–10	1×
Block 2	11–20	2×
Block 3+	21+	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

Enter the discharge / availability date and we count the free period the way this port counts it.

Before you quote — watch for

Hapag files demurrage and detention as strictly separate clocks — a combined line on the invoice is itself a red flag.
Sobrestadia is billed in blocks, not per day — one day over a block boundary costs a full block.

Derived from the carrier’s published tariff structure plus the prevailing local norm for this port. Your service contract overrides it. Hapag-Lloyd demurrage & detention tariff

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