Reading a shipping line’s schedule reliability before you book
The sailing schedule tells you when a vessel is supposed to leave. It does not tell you how often that line actually keeps that date on this lane.
Rule changes, port conditions and the things that quietly add days to a shipment.
The sailing schedule tells you when a vessel is supposed to leave. It does not tell you how often that line actually keeps that date on this lane.
Terminal cut-offs tighten before a long weekend for a simple reason: fewer working shifts have to clear the same volume.
A reclassification query at assessment does not have to mean a demurrage clock. It means the paperwork has to answer a question it was not written for yet.
Origin, destination, commodity and rough volume is enough to start. You will get a quote with the landed charges spelled out.