Containers
Container free days and demurrage: track them before you pay
Demurrage and detention are charged by the day. Most disputes come from two clocks that disagree: the carrier's record and what your own gate and yard recorded.
The clock
Where the days go
Free days start from an event such as discharge or gate-out and end when the container is returned. Everything in between counts: customs holds, appointment waits, time staged in the yard, a trailer waiting for a door.
If the only record is the carrier invoice, you can only accept or dispute it. With your own timestamps you can do something earlier.
Events
Bring container events and yard events together
Container tracking events from your provider tell you when the box is discharged, available and due. Gate and yard timestamps tell you what happened once it reached you. Side by side they show how many free days are left and who is holding the clock.
floDock takes container events from a tracking provider, such as SafeCube, as one standard shipment and shows route, events, free days and demurrage next to the yard visit.
Act
Three habits that cut charges
- Alert at a set number of free days left, not after they expire
- Record gate-in and gate-out times on every visit, with the evidence
- Keep the audit history so a disputed charge can be answered with facts
See it on your own gates and docks.
Tell us how a truck visit runs at your sites. We will walk through the record it leaves, from booking to gate-out.
Talk to our team