Earliest Receipt Date (ERD) Communication

The following advisory serves as notification of a change in process as it pertains to how customers will be informed of ocean terminal Earliest Receipt Date (ERD) information. There are many factors that may impact when an ocean terminal decides to receive export cargo, such as vessel schedules, weather, terminal congestion, etc. Sometimes these events occur just before vessel arrival, which leads to last-minute changes in receiving, as well as inconsistencies in the receiving window published by the ocean terminal vs. Maersk.

To ensure you have access to the most timely and accurate information, we are recommending the use of ocean terminal websites to obtain the Earliest Receipt Date.

Effective Monday, December 6^th 2021, for Maersk shipments loading from Garden City Terminal in Savannah, Georgia, we will stop including the ERD in the booking confirmation, and we will no longer communicate changes to the ERD as the receiving window approaches.

To further simplify the export receiving process for REEFER bookings, both DRY and REEFER containers will share the same receiving windows. Once again commencing Monday, December 6^th 2021 with cargo loading from the Garden City Terminal in Savannah, Georgia.

We will gradually expand these changes to all ocean terminals in North America and will communicate effective dates for subsequent ports in the coming weeks.

To make this change as seamless as possible, links to the terminal websites will be posted to maersk.com, under the local information Export page for Canada and US, and we will include the link in future booking confirmations.

For cargo moving to the ocean terminal by rail, we will continue to communicate the ERD at the inland rail origin.

Rest assured we will continue to work with our terminal providers to set receiving windows in advance and limit changes as much as possible.
If you have any questions, please contact your local Maersk representative. Information for your local Maersk offices can be found here.

Terminal Information

Please find links to ocean terminal websites below. Those with an asterisk (*) at the end of the terminal name require a login to access vessel schedules and receiving information. Some terminals may offer subscription services for automatic notification of changes.

*Login required to access vessel schedules and receiving information