Use case · BCOs
Know before arrival, not after the invoice
The vessel, the reconciled arrival window, and pickup-blocking holds hit one board before the driver shows up. And before the demurrage invoice lands.
The job today
Your job is simple to say and brutal to do: get the box off the water and into the warehouse without paying for time you didn't know was ticking. Between the steamship line's system and the terminal's, you own the cargo but not the visibility. You hear a container landed when someone calls. You hear it's stuck when a demurrage invoice arrives weeks later.
By then the free days are spent, the per-diem clock is running, and the charge is already yours. Knowing late is the same as not knowing.
With Conterminal
Conterminal flips the sequence. The update arrives before the phone call. You log into one board that already shows the vessel, the real arrival, and every hold blocking a pickup. You get enough runway to book the appointment and clear the box before a cost clock runs out.
One live record, watched around the clock. Nothing about your inbound cargo reaches you as a surprise.
How it works
In practice.
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See the vessel before it berths
On-water tracking shows every ship carrying your containers as a one-line verdict, not a raw dot on a map: 'Arrives in 12h · tomorrow 4:00 AM · PNCT.' A trust ladder reconciles conflicting arrival signals in a fixed order: carrier-published (SSL) ETA over terminal ETA over berth schedule over raw AIS over paper docs. You plan against the number that's actually right, not the loudest one.
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Log in to a board that already knows
The Operations Hub is the first thing you see at login: at-risk containers, blocking holds, a vessel-arrival summary, and appointment and deadline rollups on one page. Color tracks physical container state: sky-blue at sea, amber waiting at the yard, deep blue returned, red only for overdue and critical. A single glance tells you what needs you today.
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Catch the return trap before it bills you
A container headed for a termination-yard return stays flagged At Risk until BOTH the physical gate-in AND the return interchange receipt (EIR/TIR) are confirmed. Never one without the other. Pills like 'IS TERMINATION: NEEDS EIR' name exactly what's missing. Any hold that blocks a pickup surfaces the moment it lands, not after the per-diem accrues.
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Act while the clock still has runway
The arrival, the holds, and the paperwork gap all reach you early. So you schedule the appointment and move the box inside the window that avoids demurrage and detention, instead of reading about the delay on the invoice.
How it works in practice
On-water reconciliation demotes stale next-voyage dates when a higher-trust source supports the active arrival window.
Get started
See it on your own freight.
Bring a handful of container numbers. We'll show you the arrivals, deadlines, and work Conterminal can resolve for your operation.