Detention
What is Detention?
This term refers to charges incurred when a container that has been offloaded from a vessel, taken from the port to a designated destination (usually a warehouse) and unloaded is not returned, either to the port or to an empty container depot, within a certain predetermined time period.
This term also applies in instances when an empty container is brought to a warehouse or storage yard to be filled for export but is not loaded and returned to the port on time.
As with demurrage, detention charges are levied per container, per day.
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