Articles
Freight audit
Carrier invoice errors that repeat month after month — rate mismatches, contract terms not honoured, duplicate charges.
Freight audit · · 5 min read
Ad valorem is not insurance: what you actually bought
A declared value charge raises the carrier's limit of liability. It pays only when the carrier is liable — insurance works differently.
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Freight audit · · 5 min read
A declared value charge with no entry in the consignment note
Raising the limit of liability works only when the declared value is entered in the transport document. Without the entry, the charge bought nothing.
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Freight audit · · 5 min read
When there is no point in raising the limit of liability
On the road the limit is 8.33 SDR per kilogram. For cheap heavy cargo it never comes into play, so an ad valorem charge has no function.
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Freight audit · · 5 min read
Carrier invoice and contract: why they almost never get compared
An invoice gets checked arithmetically, but never compared against the contracted rate. Seven categories of error, and why they recur month after month.
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Freight audit · · 2 min read
From B/L to detention invoice: where the days go missing
The container's path from B/L issuance to empty return — and the points where the days that later show up on a D&D invoice actually appear.
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Freight audit · · 2 min read
Terminal storage fee or demurrage? How to tell two invoices apart
Terminal storage and carrier demurrage often overlap for the same period. A practical explanation of how to spot when you're paying twice for the same thing.
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