Logistics & shipping templates

Five free spreadsheets for freight forwarders, shippers and customs brokers — shipment milestones, clearance turnaround, demurrage exposure, rate comparison and carrier performance. Each one is a real file, not a screenshot.

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Most shipment spreadsheets record two dates: an ETA and an actual arrival. That is enough to know a container was late, and never enough to do anything about it. Every question worth asking lives between those two dates — how long clearance took, who is holding the documents, how many days a box has been sitting, what is accruing while it sits.

These five templates all work the same way: you record milestones as they happen, and everything else is derived. No status column to keep up to date, no separate summary to reconcile. If your operation needs them joined to your own data, we build that.

The five templates

Each one downloads as a working Excel and Google Sheets file

Questions about these templates

Licensing, compatibility and getting one adapted

Are these really free?

Yes — every one is a working .xlsx you can download without an account or an email address, and use commercially. We build custom spreadsheets for a living; the templates exist because a good starting point removes the enquiries where a template was all anyone needed.

Will they work in Google Sheets?

Yes. The formulas avoid everything that exists in only one of the two applications — no XLOOKUP, no structured table references, no dynamic arrays — so the same file behaves identically in Excel 2016 and later and in Google Sheets.

Can you adapt one to our lanes and carriers?

That is most of what we do in this sector. Send the template you want changed and a sample export from your forwarder or carrier portal, and you get the adapted workbook back within 24 hours.

Why is shipment tracking separate from inventory?

Because the questions are different. Inventory asks what you hold; shipment tracking asks where something is and how long it has been there. A sheet built for one answers the other badly.