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Why ICDs lose money on paper

How paper-based container tracking leads to missed billing and slow clearance.

[TBC: draft outline: full article to be written and reviewed before publishing]

An Inland Container Depot (ICD) earns from every day a container stays and every move it makes. When those moves are tracked on paper and spreadsheets, some of that revenue never gets billed.

How money slips away

  • Container moves recorded late, or not at all
  • Storage days miscounted because gate-in and gate-out dates live in different places
  • Handling charges missed when a move isn't written down
  • Clearance slowed while staff search for documents

What changes with a terminal system

  • Every container recorded from gate-in to gate-out
  • A yard view showing where each container sits and how long it has been there
  • Storage, handling and other charges calculated automatically
  • Documents and clearance steps kept in one place
  • Live reports on throughput, dwell time (how long containers stay) and revenue

That is what PrimeTMS does for ICDs and Container Freight Stations (CFSs).

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