Turn on Estimated LFD for your account
How long do you actually have before demurrage starts, if the carrier hasn't posted a last free day yet? Until now, getting an estimate meant asking someone at Terminal49 to turn it on for your account.
Every account can now turn on Estimated LFD themselves, no request needed.
What it does
When a shipping line hasn't published a last free day yet, Terminal49 can estimate one from that carrier's standard free time and the day the container was discharged. It's always marked Est., and the moment the carrier publishes a real date, that replaces the estimate.
Turning it on
Go to Settings → Estimated LFD. From there you can:
- Turn it on for every supported carrier at once, or
- Pick only the carriers you want estimates for
Picking specific carriers is useful if you've negotiated your own free time with one of them, since the standard-tariff estimate wouldn't match your real terms there. Leave that one off and turn the rest on.
Nothing changes until you turn it on. If you're not seeing any estimates yet, that's why.
Availability
- Estimated LFD covers six carriers: CMA CGM, Evergreen, Hapag-Lloyd, Maersk, MSC, and ONE.
- It's for the port of discharge only, inland destinations aren't estimated yet.
- Estimates are based on each carrier's standard published tariffs. If you've negotiated your own free time, treat the estimate as a floor rather than your actual deadline, or set your own date instead.
