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Every figure on this site, free to reuse with attribution under CC BY 4.0. Version 2026-10-22, covering shipments first invoiced from July 2024 to June 2026.
Fees by port (CSV)
One row per published port: shipments, delay-fee share, extra fees per shipment, and every fee's frequency and cost.National fee benchmarks (CSV)
One row per fee: how often it is charged and the cost distribution.Everything (JSON)
National, port and yearly figures with definitions and publication rules. llms.txt
A plain-text summary for AI assistants and crawlers.
One row per published port: shipments, delay-fee share, extra fees per shipment, and every fee's frequency and cost.National fee benchmarks (CSV)
One row per fee: how often it is charged and the cost distribution.Everything (JSON)
National, port and yearly figures with definitions and publication rules. llms.txt
A plain-text summary for AI assistants and crawlers.
How to cite
Freight Benchmarks (2026). US import container fee benchmarks, version 2026-10-22. https://freightbenchmarks.com/data/. Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Fields
- *_pct: share of shipments charged the fee at least once, importer-weighted. *_pct_max replaces it when fewer than 5 shipments paid: the true share is below that value.
- *_median_usd, *_p25_usd, *_p75_usd, *_p90_usd: the billed amount per shipment among shipments that paid, in US dollars.
- delay_fee_pct: share charged demurrage, per diem, storage or chassis extra days. extra_fees_per_shipment_usd: average accessorial charges across all shipments, top 1% capped.
- Trucking fees (chassis, chassis split, chassis extra days, pre-pull, waiting time, overweight) are shares of shipments whose final trucking the forwarder arranged.
Full definitions and rules are in the methodology. The data refreshes monthly; the version is the refresh date.
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