What is this container delay costing you?
Every tracking tool tells you where the box is. None of them tell you what it is about to cost. Pick your carrier: validate the container number, get the last free day at your discharge port, and see the dollar exposure of every day past free time — carrier demurrage and detention, plus terminal storage where it runs on its own clock.
Merged "D&D" lines hide which clock produced the charge — always demand the split before paying.
Detention stops at the nominated depot only. A refused return still stops the clock if you keep the rejection note.
APL and ANL bills of lading are filed separately — a group-brand booking rated on the CMA CGM schedule is mis-rated.
Hapag files demurrage and detention as strictly separate clocks — a combined line on the invoice is itself a red flag.
On several intra-Asia trades ONE grants one combined free period; counting two separately overstates your free time.
Evergreen filings escalate steeply after the first band — day 8 can cost triple day 4.
COSCO and OOCL are separately filed despite the common group — check which brand issued the bill of lading.
OOCL grants slightly longer detention than COSCO on the same lane — do not assume the group schedule applies.
ZIM applies short free time on special and reefer equipment; the standard dry free time rarely carries over.
Free time is filed per service string, so the same port can differ between two Yang Ming loops.
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