Free time

Origin free time raised to 10 days and no-show fee waived

Anonymised case from Sync Port's operational records

Shipper → consignee
Plywood manufacturers, Paraná → industrial packaging plants, Ontario and California
Route
Paranaguá → Halifax/Toronto · Paranaguá → Oakland
Containers
6 × 40'HC
+3 daysof origin free time on 6 containers
The problem

In its first month of operation Sync Port faced a port with no gate windows for weeks and exporters unwilling to bear transfer or cancellation costs.

What Sync Port did

Sync Port asked the carrier's commercial team to extend origin free time on both bookings and formalised a vessel transfer without a no-show fee.

The outcome
+3 daysof origin free time on 6 containers

Origin free time was extended from the carrier's standard 7 to 10 days on six containers, and the transfer was confirmed with no no-show fee.

Why it matters for your next shipment

Origin free time is negotiable before the containers are picked up, not after the invoice. Asking the carrier's commercial team early, and getting the no-cost transfer in writing, protects the exporter when the terminal cannot receive cargo.

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