The NVOCC’s own bill of lading, priced by revenue ton.
An NVOCC issues the bill of lading, so the tariff and the liability are its own. The rate is per revenue ton or per container, never both at once, and the billing line must show which one it used and what it used it on. Four of the eleven steps in a forwarder’s day belong to this desk, and one screen belongs to nobody else.
Four steps of the eleven, and one that belongs to this desk alone.
Ordered by the cost of leaving them alone. The right column states what each one costs if it is left unattended.
Carrier cut-offs
3 cut-offs are already past and not met
Past and not met, then inside the next 48 hours, across every master the NVOCC has co-loaded onto as well as its own. The ERD is counted on its own line: a past ERD means the window is open, which is good news.
Container free time
4 containers are past free time — detention is accruing
Past free time. Two days left. Gated out without a VGM. Demurrage runs while the box is at the terminal; detention runs while somebody holds it. Two clocks, two start events.
The carrier’s D&D invoice
3 carrier demurrage invoices are still inside the 30-day window to dispute, the first closing in 4 days
The window to dispute closes at thirty days, and the queue counts down to the first one. Each invoice is checked against the twenty items 46 CFR §541.6 requires, with the clause number beside each, and the items that apply are chosen by direction — an export is not asked for a discharge port.
Money leaking quietly
Six ways money stops moving, on one list
Delivered more than 45 days ago and never invoiced. Shipments with no delivery date, which never age at all. Receivables past credit terms — and the customers with no credit terms set, where this system says it cannot tell whether they are late. Credit applied against an invoice that does not exist. Email that never went out.
The NVOCC’s own B/L, and the co-loaded consolidation
Houses under the NVOCC’s master, and the bill of lading printed from the record
Houses under the NVOCC’s master, the ocean bill of lading printed from the record rather than retyped into a template, and co-loader statements out of the Partner extension. Issuing an ocean B/L of its own sits behind the is_nvocc switch.
Two systems, one lock, two extensions.
A system that is off has no menus, rather than greyed-out ones, and is not billed. One of these is not a preference at all.
SCM
QMS
is_nvocc
Partner
Containers
What stays off
A billing line that proves itself.
One LCL charge, and every number that produced it on the same line. There are two ways to be wrong here and they point in opposite directions, which is why the inputs are printed and not only the answer.
Why the line carries its inputs
A billing line that shows only its answer cannot be checked by the customer who has to pay it or by the clerk who has to defend it. Charging what the tariff says and nothing else is 46 U.S.C. 41104(a)(2) and 46 CFR 532.5; the line printing its own working is what makes that visible on a page instead of true in a database.
There is exactly one pounds-to-kilograms constant in the codebase. A second one would eventually disagree with the first, and the disagreement would arrive as an invoice.
Forty-five minutes on a real shipment.
One co-loaded consolidation is taken from the rate table to the bill of lading to the invoice, on a demonstration company or on a copy of the NVOCC’s own spreadsheet. Disputed lanes are welcome. The session ends with a written quotation.