Stopped Shipment Cost Calculator
Time is money. And a stopped
shipment will cost you both.
When your hazardous materials shipment gets stopped or is held, it means that it didn't meet shipping regulations, so it's stuck in customs, on the tarmac, or at a port until you find a way to make it compliant. Every day, shipments are stopped because of incorrect packaging and shipping papers, wrong markings and labels, or other mistakes. But the cost of a stopped shipment is more than the price of a label or a box. These mistakes cost businesses like yours millions of dollars in fees, expenses and lost revenue.
To calculate what a stopped shipment could cost you,
let’s simulate a very real situation.
Start
You’ve just received an order from your
best customer. Now you need to prepare a
shipment of your best-selling product.
Question #1
Approximately how much does
it cost to manufacture the
average shipment quantity
of this product?
TIPS
- Include any cost of materials into this number.
- We will ask about labor and shipping costs next.
- When deciding on a cost, think about an average shipment.
- Not sure of your exact cost? As an example, use $5,000 for a pallet of hazardous widgets.
You’ve just received an order from your
best customer. Now you need to prepare a
shipment of your best-selling product.
Question #2
What is your labor cost to prepare
this shipment for transport?
TIPS
- Include labor costs for all the people who are involved in preparing your shipment like
pickers, packers, shipping managers, etc.
- Consider how long it takes to prepare a shipment.
- Do they spend any time researching the regulations?
- Not sure? Take a guess or use $1,000 as an estimate.
You’ve just received an order from your
best customer. Now you need to prepare a
shipment of your best-selling product.
Question #3
What about the cost of shipping
supplies you use to prepare
a shipment for transport?
TIPS
- Consider the cost of forms, labels, markings, packaging, placards, containers, etc.
- Take your best guess or use $500 as an example.
You’ve just received an order from your
best customer. Now you need to prepare a
shipment of your best-selling product.
Question #4
Finally, how much does it cost
you to transport this shipment
to your customer?
TIPS
- Think about the cost of the method of transportation (air, land, sea)
- How quickly does the shipment need to arrive? Is there a rush charge?
- Not sure? Enter $500 as an estimate for one-way ground transport.
your shipment was stopped by:
package misuse
FINE: $1,000 – $16,500
After days of investigating, you've determined that your shipment was stopped for transporting hazardous materials with inappropriate packaging. Now you know you can't just use any old box to ship your hazmat. This is going to be expensive.
Fix It
Other common causes of stopped shipments:
Hover over to learn more.
improper hazmat identification
FINE: $5,000 – $30,000
You transported hazardous materials without the appropriate papers, package markings, labels or placards.
Incorrect Shipping Papers
FINE: $600 – $7,500
Your shipping papers were improperly filled out – using incorrect information or excluding information.
Improper Markings or Placarding
FINE: $1,000 – $12,000
You didn’t put the proper placards or markings on a container or vehicle transporting hazardous materials. Big mistake.
Mishandling of Lithium Batteries
FINE: $1,000 – $40,000
You transported lithium batteries in unauthorized packaging, or without the appropriate labels, placards or markings.
Improper labeling OR markings
FINE: $600 – $10,000
You failed to apply the correct ID number, markings, or labels to a package.
Untrained Employees
FINE: $1,000 – $1,500
You failed to provide training or maintain training records for all hazmat employees.
All fines on this page are based on those outlined 49-CFR. Fines could be more or less severe for international shipping.
Get your shipment complaint.
The investigation took you days that you don’t have. Now it’ll cost a fair amount of money to correct it on top of the fees for inappropriately shipping the product in the first place. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, your best customer is leaving angry voicemails, wondering when their shipment will finally arrive.
you have three options:
throw it away
and start again
Disposing of the shipment means you eat the cost of the product, shipping, any fees associated with your product’s disposal and start all over again with a new product.
Select
try to fix it on-site
Fly someone out to work with authorities on how to get your shipment moving again. You’ll foot the bill for as long as it takes to get the matter resolved.
Select
hire a third party
They’ll correct the problem and get your shipment moving again, but their expertise comes at a premium.
Select
DISPOSAL WON’T JUST COST YOU YOUR
SHIPMENT. IT’LL COST YOU .
That includes:
- - Fee for Packaging Misuse
- - The cost to replace the shipment
- $800 - The cost of disposing of the shipment
- $1,000 - The cost to investigate the cause of the cause of your stopped or held shipment
And that’s not all. Because your shipment was so delayed, your best customer has taken their business to a competitor. Which is really going to cost you.
But with Labelmaster’s help, you can avoid stopped shipments and expenses before they happen.
Here’s how you can avoid stopped shipments:
dealing with it on-site cost you
and time that you didn’t have to spare.
That includes:
- - Fee for Packaging Misuse
- - The cost to investigate the cause of the cause of your stopped or held shipment
- $3,000 - The cost to fly a DG expert out to resolve the problem
- $4,000 - The cost to arrange for rush shipping and packaging
And that’s not all. Because your shipment was so delayed, your best customer has taken their business to a competitor. Which is really going to cost you.
But with Labelmaster’s help, you can avoid stopped shipments and expenses before they happen.
Here’s how you can avoid stopped shipments:
moving forward with a third-party
solution just set you back .
That includes:
- - Fee for Packaging Misuse
- - The cost to investigate the cause of your stopped or held shipment
- $9,100 - The cost to hire a 3rd party firm to handle it for you
And that’s not all. Because your shipment was so delayed, your best customer has taken their business to a competitor. Which is really going to cost you.
But with Labelmaster’s help, you can avoid stopped shipments and expenses before they happen.
Here’s how you can avoid stopped shipments: