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What a detention can cost.
A detention takes a ship off-hire while deficiencies are rectified, and the bill runs well past the lost days. Adjust the figures to your vessel to see the order of magnitude.
Your vessel
Lost hire plus running costs while the ship cannot trade. Edit it to match your charter.
1 day14 days
Extended port stay, agency fees, surveyor attendance and repairs.
Illustrative cost of one detention
€175,000
Off-hire€135,000Port, agency and rectification€40,000
- Off-hire (€45,000 × 3)
- €135,000
- Port, agency and rectification
- €40,000
Illustrative only. A detention's real cost depends on the charter, the port and the deficiency. A 48 to 72 hour detention typically runs €70 to 215k all in; long detentions reach €350k to 1.3M. This estimate is not a quote.
What the estimate does not count.
The direct bill is only part of it. The costs that follow a detention often dwarf the days the ship sat idle.
- A higher risk profile
- One detention raises the Ship Risk Profile under the Paris MoU, so the vessel is targeted more often at future port calls. The cost recurs.
- Lost fixtures
- A detention on the record, or a vetting rejection that follows, can block chartering. A single lost contract runs far beyond the detention itself.
- A permanent record
- Detention records stay in the regional database. Appeals are advisory and non-binding, and the ship stays detained while one is heard.