Freetime
Free-time watch
Every container you hold, sorted by how close it is to costing money. Days remaining, the daily rate, and what has accrued so far.
Freetime puts a live free-time clock on every container you are holding, with the clearance file behind it — declaration, duty, release, delivery. You find out which box crosses into demurrage tomorrow, not when the shipping line's invoice arrives.
Built for Ghanaian freight forwarders. ICUMS, GRA duty and Tema tariffs are in it already.
Not the day the file is opened, not the day anybody looks at it. Free time is already running by the time the pre-alert reaches your desk.
Free time runs out on a date the spreadsheet does not know it is holding. By the time anyone notices, the charge is days old and not negotiable — it is arithmetic the carrier has already done.
Built around how a clearing office actually works, not around a generic shipment record.
Every container you hold, sorted by how close it is to costing money. Days remaining, the daily rate, and what has accrued so far.
All fifteen steps from pre-alert to container deposit refunded, each with its own target. The file shows you where it is stuck.
Duty, VAT and the levies computed off the CIF value the moment the pre-alert lands — a figure to quote before ICUMS assesses.
Your consignee signs in, sends original documents and sees what is owed. Fewer calls asking where the container is.
What a client sends arrives as a submission, not a fact. Your desk approves it, and only then does the step tick.
Clearance pace against target, where files stall, and which shipping line is costing you the most in demurrage.
The rules that make clearance at Tema what it is are in the product itself — which is also why a generic international freight package never quite fits.
Freetime has been run against real clearance work at Tema — real registers, real containers, real duty assessments — by forwarders and ship agents who do this every day. What they found is why it works the way it does.
The quickest way to judge it is on your own files. Send us a month of your register and we will show you what the clock would have caught.
