Demurrage & detention
Stop paying for days you already had for free.
Free time starts when the vessel berths, not when your paperwork catches up. TradeDeck counts every free day per Bill of Lading, from the actual berthing time, and warns the desk that owns the shipment before the clock runs out.
The problem
Free days are counted in three different places: the carrier's terms, the terminal's records, and somebody's memory. By the time a detention charge appears on an invoice, the day it accrued was three weeks ago and nobody can reconstruct why.
What it costs
Demurrage and detention are among the few import costs that are entirely avoidable and almost never budgeted. Every charge on the account represents a day somebody could have acted on, had they known.
How it works
Four steps, and then it runs without you.
- 01
Berthing is captured
Arrival, on-port and departure times taken from the port directly. No agent phone call.
- 02
The counter starts
Free days are tracked against each Bill of Lading's actual terms, not against an assumption.
- 03
The warning arrives
WhatsApp, email and dashboard, to the desk that owns that shipment, before the deadline rather than after.
- 04
The record survives
Every timestamp is stored and exportable, so an incorrect charge can be challenged with evidence.
What you get
Everything in this pillar, out of the box.
- Free-day counters per Bill of Lading, from actual berthing
- Container-level detention tracking
- Alerts at configurable thresholds before expiry
- Demurrage reporting, vessel-wise and bank-wise
- Full timestamp history for dispute evidence
- Excel and PDF export in one click
Built for: Operations · Finance · Clearing coordinators
Next step
Bring one shipment. We'll show you the rest.
Twenty minutes, your own documents, no preparation needed. You'll see exactly what comes out and exactly what gets flagged.