Use case · BCOs & Shippers
See free-day risk before it becomes an invoice
Every managed container carries its own cost clock: Last Empty Free Day, demurrage, and per-diem. Computed from the agreement terms configured for the rollout. Shown before the invoice, not after.
The job today
Your job is simple to state and brutal to run: get the cargo off the terminal and the empty returned before free time runs out. Blow the Last Empty Free Day (LMTFD) and demurrage starts. Sit on the empty and per-diem detention starts. Both are pure margin, gone.
Today that clock lives in a spreadsheet or someone's memory, run off steamship-line tariff terms nobody keeps current. So you learn you missed a free day when the invoice lands. Long after you could have done anything about it.
With Conterminal
Conterminal turns the free-day clock from a reconciliation task into a live column. Each managed container shows its LMTFD, demurrage exposure, and per-diem exposure, from the agreement terms configured for that move.
The containers about to cost you surface on your landing page the moment you log in. Before the phone call. A free day becomes something you act on, not something you explain on an invoice.
How it works
In practice.
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Every container gets its own live cost clock
LMTFD lands as a live column beside demurrage and detention exposure, computed from the agreement terms configured for that container, not from a single default. Source and lane coverage are confirmed during rollout.
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See what's about to cost you at login
The Operations Hub is one landing page: at-risk containers, blocking holds, appointment and deadline rollups, and day-over-day trend sparklines. Color tracks physical state. Amber waits at the yard, deep blue is returned, red is reserved for overdue and critical only. You read the board the way you'd read a dock, not a report.
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Empties stay At Risk until the paperwork is real
A container headed for a termination-yard return stays flagged At Risk until BOTH the physical gate-in AND the return paperwork — the EIR/TIR interchange receipt — are confirmed. Never one without the other. That closes the exact gap where an empty looks returned: the gate-in happened, the receipt never came, and per-diem quietly keeps running.
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Holds that block a pickup surface the moment they land
A hold that would stop a pickup shows up the instant it appears, not at the gate. You reroute the drayage before the free-day clock burns on a container you were never going to move that day.
How it works in practice
Termination returns stay At Risk until the gate-in and the EIR/TIR interchange receipt both confirm the handoff. That's the gap where per-diem otherwise hides.
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