Container demurrage, detention and per diem
Terminal demurrage, carrier detention and chassis charges for import containers, with tiered day rates.
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- Your own numbers, worked out as often as you like
- The full charge sheet you can print or save to My work
- 4 cited sources, linked, with the checks to make
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- A plain-words read of your result (a fuller AI read with the Bifrost AI add-on)
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Example result · fictional numbers
What you get: charge sheet
Worked out by this tool from its default inputs. Its role plan lets you run your own numbers, print the sheet and save it.
$4,170.00 on 3 containers; gate out on the last free day (day 4) would save $2,700.00
- Demurrage
- $2,700 (5 chargeable days)
- Detention
- $750 (2 chargeable days)
- Chassis
- $720
- Total
- $4,170
- Per container
- $1,390
- Cost of one more terminal day
- $900
Charge sheet per container
- Demurrage, first tier
- 4 days × $150.00 = $600.00
- Demurrage, second tier
- 1 day × $300.00 = $300.00
- Detention
- 2 days × $125.00 = $250.00
- Chassis per diem
- 6 days × $40.00 = $240.00
- Per container
- $1,390.00
- All 3 containers
- $4,170.00
and 1 more lines
Also on the sheet
- Cost by gate-out day (same return time) · 5 lines, starting with “Gate out on day 4 (last free day)”
- Empty return · 3 lines, starting with “Detention free time”
- Dispute and invoice check · 4 lines, starting with “Delay you reported”
The plain-words read of this example
As entered, 3 containers run up $4,170.00, $1,390.00 each, after 9 days at the terminal and 6 days out. Gating out on the last free day (day 4) would cut that to $1,470.00; a prepull to a yard would cost $5,670.00. Each extra terminal day adds $900.00, so book the pickup early. No hold was reported, so the charges stand unless the invoice is wrong. Check every invoice against the FMC billing rule.
4 cited sources
- 46 CFR 545.5, Interpretive rule on demurrage and detention (Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School)
- Demurrage and detention billing requirements (final rule, 89 FR 14330, 46 CFR 541) (Federal Register via Justia)
- FMC's new demurrage and detention regulations become effective May 2024 (HFW)
- Uniform Intermodal Interchange and Facilities Access Agreement (UIIA) (Intermodal Association of North America)
Plus 6 step-by-step checks, a print layout and a link that reopens it with your numbers.
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