How it works

From a spreadsheet of containers to money you did not spend

CargoIQ is not a tracking map. It is an exception desk: it looks at every container you own right now and says which ones will cost you money, why, and who needs to move.

1. Bring your containers in

Upload a CSV or Excel export, or paste a link to a spreadsheet your team already keeps. Columns are matched automatically, and a linked sheet is re-read on a schedule so nobody has to upload anything again.

2. Every box is checked against your own contracts

Free days are not a guess. You record detention and storage days per carrier, per port and per container size, and the most specific rule wins. Exposure is then calculated in your own currency using your daily demurrage and storage rates.

3. The board tells your team what to do first

Containers are grouped into Critical, At risk, Monitor and Under control, with a countdown and a money figure on each one. Alerts go out by email, and urgent items pulse on screen so nothing quietly runs out of time.

4. The people outside your team get chased too

Most delays sit with a clearing agent, a transporter or the line. One click sends a written chase with the container facts and a reply-by date, logged on the container's timeline and escalated when the date passes.

5. Savings are recorded, not estimated

When a container closes, two clicks record what actually happened — released in time, demurrage paid, storage paid — and the report separates money genuinely avoided from money spent, by cause, carrier, port and responsible party.

The nine checks run on every box

Each check is a plain rule, not a black box. Every flagged container shows the numbers behind it and which of your free-time rules was applied.

Free time expiring

Detention or storage days about to run out on a box still on the terminal.

Demurrage accruing

Free time already gone and charges running day by day.

Excessive dwell

A container sitting far longer than its peers at the same port.

Customs hold

A clearance stopped or queried, with the clock still running.

Vessel delay

An arrival that has moved, changing every downstream date.

Missing transport

Discharged with no truck assigned to collect it.

Missing documents

Release paperwork not on file when it is needed.

Stale data

A container nobody has updated in over two days.

Return overdue

An empty that should already have gone back.

See it on your own containers

Start with sample data in a minute, or send us one week of your container list and we will show you what it flags.