DemurrageGuard
Stop paying demurrage & detention you don't owe. DemurrageGuard audits your US-import D&D invoices against the Federal Maritime Commission billing rule, finds what you are not required to pay, and drafts the dispute — using the tools below.
For US-inbound containers the FMC billing rule (46 CFR part 541) is a legal lever. If an invoice is issued more than 30 days after the charge was last incurred (§541.7), the billed party is not required to pay it. If it is missing required content (§541.6), the obligation to pay does not attach (§541.5). Most importers pay anyway — because nobody has time to check. DemurrageGuard checks every invoice in seconds.
The Exposure Calculator shows what is accruing; the Audit engine shows what was wrongly billed.
The engine quantifies what is recoverable, cites the exact FMC rule sections, and drafts the letter.
You send the letter; the Recovery Ledger tracks it from filed to recovered.
Use the three tools above yourself, no charge. Audit an invoice, see your exposure, and track your own recoveries. Nothing you enter is stored on our servers.
Send us your invoices and we audit, quantify, and draft the disputes for you. Our fee is 25% of what you actually recover or avoid — invoiced only after the money is back. No recovery, no fee.
A worked example — a representative demurrage invoice run through the engine: $4,410 billed, up to $4,410 recoverable, with the drafted letter. Illustrative, but every figure is the engine's exact output.
Decision support, not legal advice. DemurrageGuard cites the exact FMC rule sections (46 CFR part 541 — contents §541.6, failure-to-include §541.5, timeliness §541.7, disputes §541.8) so your counsel can verify; §541.4 (“properly issued invoices”) was vacated by the D.C. Circuit. Built by Sai Abhiram Manoj Kalluri, MBA Supply Chain & Global Operations, Middlesex University Dubai.