Protect Your Logistics Budget from Port Storage Penalties
Unforeseen Demurrage and Detention charges can quickly destroy the profitability of a shipment. Whether due to custom delays, lack of trucking capacity, or warehouse bottlenecks, when a container stays past its allotted “free time,” the fees compound daily. Proactive logistics managers move beyond reactive billing and use intelligent calculators to estimate potential costs, track gate-in/gate-out dates, and optimize equipment turnaround.
Key Demurrage & Detention Tool Features
- Proactive D&D Calculation: Estimate potential storage fees by inputting vessel arrival dates, free time agreements, and daily tariff rates to identify high-risk shipments.
- Milestone & Gate-Event Tracking: Monitor exact container gate-in at port (origin) and gate-out at port (destination) times alongside standard ocean track & trace data.
- Exception & Free-Time Alerts: Set up automated email notifications to receive alerts when shipments approach their free time expiry at terminals or inland depots.
- Negotiation Data Hub: Use historical container detention data to negotiate more favorable free time conditions with carriers and terminals during tender seasons.
Demurrage Calculator
The Demurrage calculator is a tool to calculate how many days have gone since your container have arrived in Demurrage or detention.
You can also calculate how much you need to charge or pay. First you choose the Demurrage Calculator from the Dashboard.
In the Demurrage calculator you pick Arrival date and Empty return date.
Choose how many days you got for free and which days you won’t be charged for. Then click calculate.
Below the calculation of days you can calculate your actual cost/price
Calculation example
In this example we have set the first 6 days to cost 50 USD daily and the next 10 days to cost 75 USD daily.
Protect Your Logistics Budget from Port Storage Penalties – use the Pier2Pier Demurrage calculator
Avoid expensive port storage fees. Calculate Demurrage and Detention costs for ocean containers, set proactive alerts, and negotiate better free time with data.