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MSC container tracking — what the delay is costing you

Tracking tells you where the box is. It never tells you what it is about to cost. Enter a MSC container number and your discharge port to get the last free day and the dollar exposure of every day past it — carrier demurrage, detention and, where it runs separately, terminal storage.

Free days
4
calendar days
Last free day
2026-08-29
4 day(s) left
Exposure · 3 day(s)
$495
day 1 $165 → day 3 $165

MSC bills demurrage and detention as separate clocks at Los Angeles / Long Beach. Vessel discharge.

Market-typical per-diem for this region, escalated through the published band structure. Your service contract or the carrier filing overrides it — we verify against the actual tariff on a free audit.

Email me this before the clock starts

We’ll send this calculation and an alert before your last free day. One field, no account.

Where the demurrage clock starts

Vessel discharge.

Where the detention clock starts

Gate-out; stops only on return to a nominated depot.

The MSC gotcha

Detention stops at the nominated depot only. A refused return still stops the clock if you keep the rejection note.

Already been billed by MSC?

A charge that does not serve an incentive purpose, or an invoice missing required elements, is disputable. Send three recent invoices and one bill of lading and we return a written leak report in 48 hours — free, no contract.

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