Congestion Hours • Vessel Time • Waiting Fuel • Cargo Carry • Downstream Disruption • Recovery • Expected Exposure

Port Congestion Delay Cost Calculator

Convert port congestion into vessel-time, bunker, port, cargo and schedule exposure. Use Simple for a fast delay-cost screen, or Advanced to separate anchorage, berth queue, terminal and other phases, model commercial recovery, allocate cost to cargo units, and stress delay duration against bunker prices.

Figures represent
↑Need phase-level anchorage, berth and terminal exposure?Advanced separates each congestion phase, adds schedule-recovery fuel, carbon cost, cargo-unit allocation and expected scenario exposure.
TimeDelay hours → vessel cost
FuelWaiting burn → bunker bill
CommercialCargo + disruption + recovery

Congestion & Vessel Exposure

Use the actual or expected waiting period. Avoid double counting if vessel value/day already includes costs entered elsewhere.

hours
currency/day
MT/day while waiting
currency/MT
currency/day
total cargo value
%/year
currency/day
fixed exposure for this delay
currency/day actually expected to be recovered
↑Build the congestion event phase by phase.Advanced calculates each delay phase independently, then layers cargo carry, schedule recovery, carbon, commercial recovery, scenario probability and stress cases.

Congestion Phase Register

Add anchorage, berth queue, terminal and other phases. Each phase has its own vessel value, waiting fuel and incremental port/other daily cost.

UsePhaseHoursVessel / DayFuel MT / DayPort / DayOther / Day

Cargo, Schedule & Recovery

MT burned after departure to recover schedule
currency/day across total delay
tonnes, TEU, units or another consistent basis
currency/day potentially recoverable
% actually expected to be collected
Expected-value planning only
tCO₂/MT fuel
currency/tCO₂

Delay Stress Cases

Stress the base event without rewriting the phase register. Multipliers are applied to phase hours, fuel price, vessel value, storage/downstream cost and recovery realization.

UseCaseDelay %Fuel Price %Vessel Value %Downstream %Recovery %
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