Shipping to and from Puerto Rico

• Consignee on the B/L must be register with Puerto Rico State Department, they must have a Social Security(Tax Id) and Merchant Registration Number with the local Excise Tax Office (Hacienda) Puerto Rico Treasury Department.

• As part of the US Customs 24 Hour Rule regulations, ‘To the order of’ Bills of Lading are not accepted for shipments destined to the U.S. or routed via U.S. ports.
• U.S. Customs also does not accept the commodity descriptions ‘Freight all kinds’, nor ‘General Merchandise (GDSM) or the package type ‘pallets’.

For details on per diem charge for Export and Import Detention for Spot cargo please reference download free_time_offer_for_Sealand_SPOT.xlsx . This is the same information available when searching a Spot rate at time of booking, offers within are subject to change.

Our setup in Puerto Rico consists of Combined Demurrage and Detention.

This means you will have one combined free time period and compensation for utilization of equipment inside and outside of terminals or depots, referred to as Combined Demurrage and Detention.

Combined Demurrage and Detention starts from Discharge Full (included), ends with gate-in Empty in depot.

Effective April 9th , 2018 our tariff charges will be:

Free time

Note 1: NOR’s are considered under Dry Freetime (9 days).

Tariff after free time

Note 2: NOR’s will be charged as Dry containers corresponding to size of equipment.