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. 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.