Your import desk, running itself
Bringing a container of steel into the country takes about six weeks, six documents and four dates that cost money if they slip. Below is one shipment, start to finish, and what TradeDeck does at each point along the way.
Nothing here is broken today. It is held together by attachments, spreadsheets and a group chat, and it works right up until a date slips. What follows is one shipment, and where TradeDeck stands at every point in it.
- document types read
- 8document types read
- deadline types watched
- 13deadline types watched
- minutes between scans
- 15minutes between scans
One shipment, start to finish
Follow one container of steel. Watch TradeDeck at every point it could cost you.
Six documents, four dates, about forty-seven days. Each stop below is a real moment in that shipment and what TradeDeck does about it, right there.
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0
of a typical
47-day shipment
- Day 0
The price is set
Steel is priced against the LME, the exchange that sets the world price for metals, and against the day's exchange rate. TradeDeck applies your formula to both, the same way every time, and shows the working behind the number.
new term · LMELME pricing and FX - Day 3
The bank opens the credit
A Letter of Credit is your bank's promise to pay the supplier once the paperwork matches exactly what was agreed. TradeDeck checks every document against it as it arrives, so a mismatch is caught by you, not by the bank.
new term · Letter of CreditLetter of Credit management - Day 12
The mill ships, and the documents follow
An invoice, a packing list and a Bill of Lading, the document proving what is on board, arrive scanned within hours of being signed. TradeDeck reads every field off them in seconds, whatever the layout.
new term · Bill of LadingHow the extraction works - Day 12
One field doesn't add up
This time it's a shipping mark, smudged past reading on the scan. TradeDeck holds that one field for a person instead of guessing, because a wrong figure saved quietly is the one a customer disputes, or an auditor finds, months later.
- Days 12–40
The ship is somewhere at sea
For four weeks nobody but the shipping agent knows exactly where. TradeDeck tracks the vessel by name or MMSI on a live feed, and checks it against the Karachi Port Trust's own departure records.
Shipment and vessel tracking - Day 40
The vessel berths, and a clock starts
Free days, a fixed window to clear the container, start counting the moment it does, not when the paperwork catches up. Every day past them is billed, per container, for as long as it takes to clear, and TradeDeck warns the desk while days are still left, not after they've run out.
new term · free daysDemurrage and detention - Day 40 onward
Not just this deadline. Every one.
Free days are one date among thirteen deadline types TradeDeck watches for every shipment: credit expiry, filing windows, quota validity, bank limits, the 180-day bond clock. All re-checked every fifteen minutes, and the moment one needs attention it reaches the desk that owns it on WhatsApp, email or the dashboard.
Reporting and alerts - Day 41
The warning arrives where the desk already is
Not a dashboard nobody has open, not a report nobody reads end to end. The same two deadlines from a moment ago land as messages, in the group the operations team already has open, the moment each crosses its threshold.
Reporting and alerts - Day 43
Customs, duty, and a second clock
The Goods Declaration has its own filing window, and the duty exemption being claimed against it has both a tonnage ceiling and an expiry date. TradeDeck tracks both, so neither lapses quietly.
new term · Goods DeclarationDuty and SRO quota - Any day
You just ask
Instead of opening five tabs to answer one question, you ask it in plain English. TradeDeck writes its own query against your live records and hands the answer back with the working attached.
How the assistant is guarded
The container is released, and nothing on it was a surprise.
The price traced back to a formula, the credit was checked before the bank saw it, the desk was warned on WhatsApp while free days were still left, and the quota still had room on it. Every date that could have cost money didn't.
The forty-seven days above are a realistic Gulf-to-Karachi shape, not a claim about any one shipment. The rules are not illustrative: thirteen deadline types, a fifteen-minute scan and the pricing, credit and quota checks are how the system actually runs.
Why you can rely on it
Software that guesses quietly is worse than none.
It never saves a guess
Every extracted field carries its own confidence score, and anything below the threshold waits for a person instead of being written to the record.
Every figure traces back to paper
The original scan stays attached to the record it produced, so an auditor's question is a lookup rather than a reconstruction from email.
Built for how imports work here
NBP ratesheets, SRO quotas, PSW filings, Karachi Port Trust departures and the banks you already deal with, rather than a global platform with a country setting switched on.
Everything else
Eight parts of the desk, on one record.
Next step
Bring one shipment. We'll show you the rest.
Twenty minutes, your own documents, no preparation needed. You will see exactly what comes out of them and exactly what gets held back for a person.