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The Free-Time Matrix
Every carrier files demurrage and detention free time locally: the same line gives you three days in Long Beach and seven in Valencia for the same box. Pick a carrier, a port of discharge and a container type and get the free days, how the days are counted, where each clock starts, and the escalation bands — before you quote, not after the invoice.
Sellexio watches vessels and voyages worldwide — every commercial port on AIS — and holds filed carrier and terminal benchmarks at 57 ports across 10 carriers. Outside those gateways we still read your invoice against the carrier's own filing — ask the desk for any port in the world.
Maersk · Los Angeles / Long Beach · 40' dry (GP) · import
- Demurrage clock starts
- Discharge of the container from the vessel (some filings start the following day).
- Detention clock starts
- Gate-out of the loaded container from the terminal.
- Weekend & holiday policy
- Calendar days including weekends; most filings exclude the day of discharge itself.
Escalation after free time
| Band | Chargeable days | Relative daily rate |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 | 1–5 | 1× |
| Tier 2 | 6–10 | 1.8× |
| Tier 3+ | 11+ | 2.6× |
Bands are relative multipliers of the first chargeable day, not dollar rates — per-diem amounts are contract- and lane-specific. Use the carrier lookup below for the filed figure.
Enter the discharge / availability date and we count the free period the way this port counts it.
Before you quote — watch for
- Merged "D&D" lines hide which clock produced the charge — always demand the split before paying.
- Appointment scarcity is the top reversal ground here: days when no dual-transaction slot existed are not merchant-caused under the FMC rule.
- US import: the FMC rule (46 CFR 541) requires the charge to serve an incentive purpose and the invoice to carry 13 specific elements. A defective invoice eliminates the obligation to pay.
Derived from the carrier’s published tariff structure plus the prevailing local norm for this port. Your service contract overrides it. Maersk Local Information — D&D lookup
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How to read these rows
- Rows are derived from each carrier’s published tariff structure plus the prevailing local norm at that port. They are a planning baseline, not a substitute for the filing.
- Your service contract always overrides the tariff. If your contract grants extra free time, that is the number that governs.
- Every row links to the carrier’s own tariff lookup so you can confirm the filed figure for the exact date of discharge.