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Hapag-Lloyd container tracking — what the delay is costing you

Tracking tells you where the box is. It never tells you what it is about to cost. Enter a Hapag-Lloyd container number and your discharge port to get the last free day and the dollar exposure of every day past it — carrier demurrage, detention and, where it runs separately, terminal storage.

Free days
4
calendar days
Last free day
2026-08-29
4 day(s) left
Exposure · 3 day(s)
$495
day 1 $165 → day 3 $165

Hapag-Lloyd bills demurrage and detention as separate clocks at Los Angeles / Long Beach. Discharge date, counted from the day after in most filings.

Market-typical per-diem for this region, escalated through the published band structure. Your service contract or the carrier filing overrides it — we verify against the actual tariff on a free audit.

Email me this before the clock starts

We’ll send this calculation and an alert before your last free day. One field, no account.

Where the demurrage clock starts

Discharge date, counted from the day after in most filings.

Where the detention clock starts

Gate-out; ends on empty return to a nominated depot.

The Hapag-Lloyd gotcha

Hapag files demurrage and detention as strictly separate clocks — a combined line on the invoice is itself a red flag.

Already been billed by Hapag-Lloyd?

A charge that does not serve an incentive purpose, or an invoice missing required elements, is disputable. Send three recent invoices and one bill of lading and we return a written leak report in 48 hours — free, no contract.

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