Shipping to and from Peru

Local Charges

Itineraries

Standard Local Public Rates - Effective from August 1st, 2025

Public Rates for Additional Services

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Standard free time - Import
Port / terminal Names : All Ports
Valid from :1st December 2023
Charge type : Demurrage and Detention combined
Transport mode : All transport modes
Service mode : All service modes

General Demurrage & Detention Information

• Free time, demurrage, and detention terms apply to the country where the Empty unit is gated-in by the customer or at the location designated by the carrier.
• Demurrage & Detention combined | from gate in Full at terminal/depot to gate in Empty return at terminal/depot.
• Charges in USD per calendar day (including weekends and holidays).
• Maersk uses a Progressive method to calculate demurrage and detention charges after the free time expires. For customers with special agreements, exceeding the extended free time will incur demurrage and detention charges based on the relevant day count within our tiered tariff structure. This means that subsequent charges beyond the extended free time will not automatically be calculated using the first-tier rates. Discharge Date is considered the starting point for calculating demurrage and detention combined.

Free Time.

• Intermodal Free Time: Free time conditions are the same for both Carrier and Merchant Haulage. The Free Time period begins on the discharge date of the full unit and ends upon the gate-in of the empty unit to the terminal or depot assigned by the carrier.
• Hazardous cargo receives the same free time conditions as dry units. However, responsibility for the handling and storage of hazardous cargo at terminals and depots remains with the cargo owners.
• Non-Operating Reefe (NOR): DRY equipment (40DRY includes 8'6 & 9'6) free days and per diem conditions applies to NORs. NOR with Hazardous Cargo will be treat as DRY.

Equipment Types.

• Dry Equipment refers to 20-foot Dry, 40-foot Dry, 40-foot High-Cube, 45-foot Dry, and Reefer units (20'RF, 40'RF, and 40'RH). Special equipment includes Open Tops, Flat Racks, and Out-of-Gauge cargo. SOC Equipment refers to equipment owned by the merchant/shipper. COC refers to equipment owned by the carrier.
• Shipper-owned containers (SOC) are not subject to detention but are subject to storage and demurrage charges.

Special Conditions.

• Spot conditions may differ from the conditions mentioned above. Maersk Spot (instant booking system) conditions are available in the downloadable document provided Here, which supersedes any separately agreed-upon terms. If you have any doubts, please check with the shipper or your local agents to confirm the booking/shipment modality you used. Link to downloadable document.
• Demurrage and Detention charge applied to any given shipment depends to the PCD: Price Calculation Date (PCD). The following factors should be considered as guidance.
  • PCD for non-FMC shipments – The date when the carrying vessel is scheduled to depart from the Port of Loading.
  • PCD for FMC regulated trades – The date when Maersk Line takes possession of the last container listed on the transport document. This affects the Demurrage and Detention special free time. You will need to negotiate and mutually agree on the specifics before or on the Price Calculation Date.

Other Important Information.

• D&D Calculator Click here to know more about it
• Terminal storage charges may apply, nevertheless, those are charged directly by Terminal Operator.
• Terminal plug-in and electricity charges may apply; however, these charges are billed directly by the Terminal Operator.
• The Shipper assumes, prior to the shipowner, the contractual and legal duty to export/ship their cargo to a Consignee who has a genuine interest and the necessary conditions to acquire/receive the imported cargo. The Shipper is responsible for promoting the effective removal of the cargo at the destination and fulfilling all obligations associated with this act. If the cargo is abandoned at its destination or if the Consignee fails to remove it for any reason, the Shipper shall be jointly and severally liable, together with the Consignee, for all amounts, costs, expenses, damages, or losses incurred by the carrier as a result of this situation.

Documentation requirements:

B/L CLAUSE / DOCUMENTATION: No specific clause is required.

• BL's need to be freighted following customs requirements for final customers. Unrated BL's are allowed ONLY for NVO'S customers and Forwarders Customers must paid duties and taxes to customs under prepaid and collect lump sum.
• If consignee is "to order" or located "abroad/ foreign", a notify party in Peru is mandatory Dummy BL's or "customer unknown" are NOT accepted
• Collect shipments are accepted
• Originals BL's and sea way bills release are workable at destination. Telex release is NOT acceptable.
• Empty container must be manifested
• Customs requires the OBL/SWB at time of cargo declaration
• Cargo in transit has to be manifested

Special customs requirements:

• Import customs manifest must be submitted to customs 96 working hours prior vessel arrival. All non-manifest cargo will be seized by local customs
• Any doc amendment required less than 4 working days prior to vessel arrival is subject to destination approval. Otherwise Customs could apply fines to carrier and/or customers
• Any doc discrepancy between documents will result in fines
• Seal Number is mandatory information for customs. If seals are NOT manifested, cargo has to be inspected at destination incurring in fines and delay for cargo release

Other information:

Donation Cargo

• For all donations shipments to Peru, origin offices must have a "guarantee letter" from shipper stating that they will be responsible of all additional storage and demurrage cost that could be incurred at destination in cargo is NOT released on time.
• For Donation and Diplomatic cargo, all destination charges (DHC,DDF, etc) must be prepaid.

Cargo in legal abandonment

• If cargo is NOT cleared in the next 30 days of vessel arrival, this is automatically consider as "Legal Abandonment" so Peruvian customs can proceed with auction of the cargo.

Return shipments or Re-export cargo

• The time limit for this process is 30 working days
• This is counted one day after container was discharged at destination port
• Carrier can NOT perform re-export process. This has to be done by consignee or consignee's customs broker.

Store door delivery

• Our depot ALCONSA can only deliver cargo which has been previously nationalized (cargo clearance) in CALLAO or PAITA.
• ALCONSA has NOT has Customs authorization to transport cargo in transit to anyplace in Peru.

Routing:

Two direct ports are offered in Peru: CALLAO, PAITA.

Weight / Measurement:

• Max legal road weight limit 32 Tons including, container and tare.
• Weight must be shown in Kilograms / Measurements must be shown in Cubic Meters.

Special Cargoes:

• OOG, B/B and IMO cargo subject to standard Maersk approval procedures. Please contact Customer Service for more information.
• 20' Reefer is not accepted in this trade.
• Aluminum containers are also restricted in this trade.

Cargo Commodities:

• Household Goods, the import of household goods is restricted since only some authorized companies can act as consignee, for more information please contact pe.import@maersk.com.
• Fireworks are allowed only with special permission by Peruvian government.
• Used tires are NOT allowed to import. Ref law N° 003-97-SA.
• Used clothes are not allowed. Just donations are allowed.
• Used cars are not allowed to import with more than 5 years of antiquity
• UNNO 0335 IMO 1.3 G/UNNO 0336 IMO 1.4G/UNNO 0337 IMO 1.4S are NOT accepted by our depot ALCONSA due to high risk involved.
• For above IMO cargo Customer needs to send the cargo to other terminal immediately after discharge (cargo can’t remain at port).