Solution
Stop paying demurrage and detention you could have seen coming
For: Import desks and 3PLs bleeding charges on boxes that sat too long
Demurrage and detention are rarely a shock. They are a clock that started the day the vessel discharged — and nobody was watching it. By the time the invoice lands, the money is already gone.
The clock is published. Read it.
Carriers publish free-time terms. The problem is they live in a tariff PDF, not next to the box. TrackingMCP surfaces the carrier’s own free-time and the clock running against it, on the container, so your team acts while there is still time to act.
- Free-time pulled from the carrier’s published terms, not a tariff estimate.
- Days remaining on every box, not a number you reconstruct on Friday.
- A demurrage report across everything you hold, so exposure is one query, not a spreadsheet.
Hear about the risk, don’t hunt for it
A box becomes a demurrage risk the moment its ETA slips or it discharges into a congested port. An HMAC-signed webhook fires the instant either happens, so the warning reaches your systems before the free days run out — not on the next manual poll.
What good looks like
One reference in. Days-to-demurrage out. A webhook when the clock gets short.
That is the whole job: turn a charge you discover after the fact into a deadline you manage before it. It is the difference between a fee and a decision.