Ocean freight is quoted on the lane and settled on everything else. Free time before demurrage starts, the tier structure once it does, terminal handling at the destination — these differ by carrier and by country and are what turn a competitive quote into an expensive shipment when anything delays. Nobody compares them at booking because assembling the comparison means reading several tariff documents. Doing it across all carriers for one lane in one call is genuinely useful leverage. Note the coverage caveat the tools themselves make: these are customer-published datasets, so what is available is what has been contributed, and the stats tool is the honest way to check before relying on a gap.
A container shipping cost client focused on the charges that arrive after the freight rate: demurrage and detention, local port charges, container freight station tariffs and inland haulage, plus port reference and transit times.
- shippingrates_dd_compare puts demurrage and detention costs side by side across every available carrier for the same lane — the comparison that decides which carrier is actually cheaper once delays are priced.
- shippingrates_dd_calculate does the same for one carrier in one country, with free-time and tier structures being what the number turns on.
- shippingrates_local_charges returns terminal handling and the rest at a port for a specific carrier, which is the line item that surprises importers.
- shippingrates_cfs_tariffs covers container freight station handling for less-than-container loads.
- shippingrates_inland_haulage and inland_search cover road and rail movement between port and inland point.
- shippingrates_port resolves a UN/LOCODE to name, country, coordinates and timezone, and shippingrates_transit estimates ocean times between two ports across carriers.
- The datasets are described as customer-published, with stats and search tools reporting what is currently covered.
Nothing named. Coverage depends on what has been published into the datasets, which the stats and line tools report.
One command — npx -y mcp-remote https://mcp.shippingrates.org/mcp