
Ports
What the terminal allows you before it starts charging for the ground your container is standing on, taken from the port's own published tariff. This is not your carrier's free time — that lives in your service contract, differs between two importers on the same vessel, and nobody can publish it for you.
- Jebel Ali AEJEA10 free days at the terminal
Port storage charges at Jebel Ali: 10 free days from discharge, then AED 82 to AED 306 a day by size and band. The published rates, and the clock they are not.
- Nhava Sheva INNSA3 free days at the terminal
At Nhava Sheva an import container gets two or three free days, depending on which of the port's five terminals the vessel worked. The published rates, side by side.
Working out what an overstay cost you is a different job, and it needs your own figures: the demurrage calculator takes the free days and the per-diem tiers off your contract. The terms themselves are in the glossary — free time, demurrage and detention.