How many free days does MSC give at Santos?

Roughly 5 demurrage free days and 3 detention free days on a 40' dry import container at Santos. Reefer and special equipment are shorter, and your service contract overrides the tariff.

Do weekends count against free time at Santos?

Calendar days; Brazilian filings commonly bill in escalating 10-day blocks.

What makes MSC charges at Santos disputable?

Detention stops at the nominated depot only. A refused return still stops the clock if you keep the rejection note. Sobrestadia is billed in blocks, not per day — one day over a block boundary costs a full block.

Free-Time Matrix/MSC

MSC free time at Santos

BRSSZ · Brazil. Sobrestadia is billed in blocks, not per day — one day over a block boundary costs a full block.

Carrier

Port of discharge

Container type

Direction

MSC · Santos · 40' dry (GP) · import

Typical filing

Demurrage free days

Box inside the terminal

Detention free days

Equipment outside the terminal

Day counting

Calendar days

Weekends included

Demurrage clock starts: Vessel discharge.
Detention clock starts: Gate-out; stops only on return to a nominated depot.
Weekend & holiday policy: Calendar days; Brazilian filings commonly bill in escalating 10-day blocks.

Escalation after free time

Band	Chargeable days	Relative daily rate
Block 1	1–10	1×
Block 2	11–20	2×
Block 3+	21+	3×

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.

Last free day calculator

Enter the discharge / availability date and we count the free period the way this port counts it.

Before you quote — watch for

Detention stops at the nominated depot only. A refused return still stops the clock if you keep the rejection note.
Sobrestadia is billed in blocks, not per day — one day over a block boundary costs a full block.

Derived from the carrier’s published tariff structure plus the prevailing local norm for this port. Your service contract overrides it. MSC local demurrage & detention tariffs

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