Beneficial cargo owners · 500 to 50,000 TEU
Pay only lawful detention and demurrage.
Take back control of the ocean logistics budget. Every invoice audited, every defect disputed, every credit reconciled to AP.
$234,000
expected recovery for a 3,500 TEU importer billed $480,000 a year, net $176,520 after fees
Recommended plan: Enterprise BCO
The problem
Where bco importers lose money.
Congestion
Storage billed on pickups that were impossible
Terminals out of appointments, gates closed for weather, boxes under holds you did not place. The invoice still counts every day.
AP habit
Invoices paid out of fear of cargo holds
Accounting pays whatever arrives because nobody wants the next container held. Defective invoices get paid alongside valid ones.
Bandwidth
No one has time to dispute
Import teams chase deliveries, not paperwork. Spreadsheet disputes start late and die in carrier inboxes past the window.
Visibility
No line of sight from invoice to milestone
The invoice lives in AP, the milestones in a visibility tool, the gate record nowhere. Nobody can prove a charge was wrong.
The approach
A D&D desk that never misses a deadline.
ATAHSKIA sits between the carrier's billing desk and your AP team. Invoices land, get audited against the 20 § 541.6 elements and the § 541.7 issuance rule, and are lined up against your container milestones and the terminal's own record of what was possible that day.
Valid invoices are approved for payment with an audit trail. Defective ones go on hold with a reason code and a dispute packet already drafted. Your team approves, ATAHSKIA sends, and credits flow back to the ledger.
- Holds defective invoices in AP automatically, with the CFR citation
- Drafts relief requests within minutes of invoice receipt
- Tracks both 30-day clocks for every invoice
- Scores every carrier in your book for contract reviews
Try it
Estimate what last year cost you.
Set your volume and annual D&D spend.
Model: 65% of billed D&D carries a Part 541 or incentive-principle defect; 62% to 97% of defective dollars are credited, 75% expected.
Estimated recoverable per year
$141k to $221k
- Defective charges
- $227,500
- Expected recovery
- $170,625
- Enterprise BCO cost
- $49,875
- Net cash recovered
- $120,750
3.4x return on the Enterprise BCO plan ($2,450/mo).
Verify with a free 12-month audit“We recovered $340,000 in invalid per diem in the first 90 days. Most of it was on invoices our team had already approved.”
Questions from bco importers
Will disputing affect our carrier relationships or cause holds?
Relief requests are factual, cite the regulation and go to the carrier's published dispute contact, the same channel its billing desk uses for every credit request. Nothing is sent without your approval.
We already use a freight audit firm. Is this different?
Freight audit firms check rates against contracts. ATAHSKIA checks D&D invoices against the federal billing rule and the operational record, which contract math alone does not cover.
How fast can we start?
A 14-day free production trial begins as soon as invoices are forwarded to your workspace inbox. Connector-based setups typically take one to two weeks.
Don't let your 30-day dispute window expire.
Send your recent D&D invoices for a free audit. We report what is recoverable within 48 hours.