Have you given up on trying to predict your final shipping costs?
Most logistics teams handle Demurrage the "traditional" way:
- You wait for the carrier to update their site.
- You manually copy that date into a spreadsheet.
- You pray the terminal data matches the carrier data.
- You get hit with a bill anyway because the “Last Free Day” shifted and nobody told you.
This isn’t management. It’s gambling.
It feels like the game is rigged against you. You can’t retrieve the container because you don’t have the data, but you get charged for not retrieving it.
We realized you can’t fight Demurrage with spreadsheets. You need a proactive Command Center.
In the video below, I walk through exactly how we solve this at Visiwise. We don’t just "track" it; we automate the anxiety away:
- The Single Source of Truth: We automatically pull and merge data from carriers, port terminals, and railways. No more logging into 10 different sites.
- The “Last Free Day” Radar: We calculate exactly when your free time expires.
- Granular Statuses: We separate “Seaport” (not going on rail) from “Inland” moves so you know exactly where your bottleneck is.
- Risk Detection: We flag containers “At Risk” or “Demurrage Incurred” before the invoice lands.
Watch the specific example in the video: We look at a container picked up on Dec 10th. The Last Free Day was Dec 4th. That is 6 days of fees that could have been avoided if the team had been alerted on Dec 3rd.
If you are tired of explaining surprise Demurrage fees to your CFO, let’s verify your "Last Free Day" data.
