Shipping to and from Germany

For transports arranged in Merchant Haulage, empty containers will be provided at the Place of Receipt location as stated on the Bill of Lading.

* Pick up charges in deep sea ports (Bremerhaven, Hamburg, Wilhelmshaven) only apply if the Port of loading varies from the port of empty pick up.

In exceptional cases and after confirmation by the carrier, empty containers may be supplied at an alternate location against payment of a pick-up fee as per tariff below.

The trigger for the validity period is the first load date at origin (Price Calculation Date).

Valid from 01. April 2020 until 30. June 2020 (subject to equipment availability)

Valid from 01. January 2020 until 31. March 2020

Demurrage

• Effective Date: 15/01/2020
• Expiry Date: Until further notice

Freetime and charges per container per calendar day (i.e. including week-ends and holidays) after freetime expires. Start date and end date are included in the calculation.

For special deals: Please bear in mind that the calculation method of charges for special deals (free-time granted > tariff free-time) is ‘progressive’ and the lead off rate slap(s) will be reduced by the number of days in excess of tariff free-time.

Please note that the below tariffs are NOT applicable for SPOT bookings. For Demurrage and Detention applicable for SPOT, please click here for Maersk SPOT

Notes:

• D&D product is split Demurrage & Detention.
• Demurrage is INCLUDING terminal storage costs and plug-in fees.
• Demurrage is invoiced based on tariff of LOAD port.
• Freetime days are basis cargo type.
• 40´ High and 45´ High containers are considered equal to 40´.
• NOR (non-operating reefer) is considered as Dry Container. 
• Shipper’s Own Container is considered as equivalent to corresponding container type.
• Shipper’s Owned Tank with DRY cargo follows freetime & rate of Dry equipment.
• Shipper’s Owned Tank with IMO cargo follows freetime & rate of IMO.

DRY Containers

REEFER and IMO Containers

Special Equipment (such as Flat Racks, Open Top) with DRY cargo

Special Equipment (such as Flat Racks, Open Top) with IMO cargo

Detention

• Effective Date: 15/01/2020
• Expiry Date: Until further notice

Freetime and charges per container per calendar day (i.e. including week-ends and holidays) after freetime expires. Start date and end date are included in the calculation.

For special deals: Please bear in mind that the calculation method of charges for special deals (free-time granted > tariff free-time) is ‘progressive’ and the lead off rate slap(s) will be reduced by the number of days in excess of tariff free-time.

Please note that the below tariffs are NOT applicable for SPOT bookings. For Demurrage and Detention applicable for SPOT, please click here for Maersk SPOT

Notes:

• D&D product is split Demurrage & Detention.
• Detention is invoiced based on tariff of LOAD port.
• Freetime days are basis cargo type.
• 40´ High and 45´ High containers are considered equal to 40´.
• Special equipment/cargo, such as Flat Racks and Open Top equipment, is considered equal to Reefer freetime and tariff.
• NOR (non-operating reefer) is considered as Dry Container.

DRY containers

REEFER containers

General booking procedures

The bookings should be placed either via Maersk website.

If you need assistance please get in contact with your dedicated Customer Service CARE business partner or CARE agent or contact our customer service team mentioned below:

If you do not have any chance to submit your booking via the above mentioned electronic channels, we kindly ask you to submit the booking using our Maersk booking template.

Please make sure that you fill out all the mandatory items enabling us to proceed with your booking: container size and type, amount of containers, service contract number, contractual customer/ contract owner (if different from booking party), place of receipt and place of delivery, complete haulage details, empty pick up depot wishes and time of pick-up, sailing date and/or vessel/voyage, as well as other relevant details.

Please note if you send a booking via E-Mail channel we debit a Manual Booking Fee of EUR 50.00 per booking.

If you want to send a booking via E-Mail booking has to contain all valid details like Container size, amount of containers to be booked, rate agreed for this transport, vessel to ship on, haulage details, any empty pick up depot wishes, as well as any other important info.

For Dangerous cargo, no bookings will be accepted, unless we are in possession of a readable dangerous cargo declaration in English. Prior loading it has to contain the container number and has to be signed for the container-packing certificate. Alternatively a separate packing certificate can be issued. It has also to be in English and readable.

For carrier haulage bookings within Germay we need minimum a two day‘s notice prior to the positining date. Otherwise we cannot guarantee you to arrange your positioning as booked.

All bookings are received on conditionally basis only until we have checked equipment availability, vessel space availability, positioning possibilities etc. After all checks have been performed from our side, you will get a booking confirmation.

We are not able to perform any export customs declarations such as B-number or BHT-number. We can however, based on the export customs docs you have to provide, ask DAMCO to perform this service for us for a handling fee.

For all shipments via Rotterdam, it is important to have the export docs together with the container. A container that has no export documents will not be shipped. The best solution is to issue one export doc per container. This guarantees a smooth handling in Rotterdam.

All containers with final discharge destination USA or are on a vessel that is in transit touching USA (FROB (foreign cargo remain on board) cargo), have to be sealed after loading by the shipper/supplier with a fixed seal.

All bookings are based on the Maersk B/L conditions. For inner German transports we are working on the ADSP newest version.

Documentation procedures

Shipping instructions have to be sent to Maersk on the following ways:

All instructions have to be given best possible one day after container loading, however latest at time of shipment. We will not be responsible for any fines that rise due to late submission of shipping instructions. These fines will be passed over to the shipper or involved forwarder.

For any cargo hitting or destinated for the USA, the shipping instructions have to be available our end latest 48 hours prior to the vessel arrival in the respective port. The detailed deadlines per service can be found on our homepage under Services & cut-offs.

Bs/L will only be issued based on proper shipping instructions. Any export customs docs will not be accepted as such.

Commodity

No restrictions

Weight limits

For road limits max 40 tons including Truck and chassis

Special Cargo

OOG, BB and IMO cargo is subject to Maersk in-house approval procedure

Special Customs requirement

The export customs procedure in Germany requires a Customs reference, which has to be requested with local customs authorities at cost of Euro18 (Euro 43 for Dangerous Cargo) per container in the case that Maersk Logistics is performing this service.

B/l clausing

No specific clausing required