Port, Crane & Terminal Equipment worked example

Downtime Cost at 58% berth schedule recovery shortfall: a worked example in port, crane & terminal equipment

Suppose berth schedule recovery shortfall falls to 58%. This page works the full calculation at that level so you can see exactly which result moves and by how much. Estimate the financial impact of port crane downtime from outage hours, lost throughput per hour, and the share of capacity that cannot be recovered.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Crane out-of-service duration: 36 hr (held at the documented default)
  • Lost container throughput value per hour: 3,200 $/hr (held at the documented default)
  • Berth schedule recovery shortfall: 58 % (the input this scenario stresses; the baseline uses 80)
  • Emergency repair call-out charge: 12,000 $ (held at the documented default)

Working through the calculation

  • The calculation starts from the formula this tool documents: Downtime cost = downtime hours x lost throughput per hour x recovery shortfall% + call-out.
  • Total downtime cost works out to 78,816 $ at these inputs, and this is the headline figure for the scenario.
  • Downtime cost per unit works out to 2,189 $ / piece at these inputs.
  • Variable downtime cost works out to 66,816 $ at these inputs.
  • Fixed downtime cost adder works out to 12,000 $ at these inputs.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where berth schedule recovery shortfall sits at 80% and the headline result is 104,160 $, this scenario comes in 24.33% below the baseline at 78,816 $.
  • It computes total downtime cost as lost-throughput hours scaled by the unrecoverable shortfall plus a fixed emergency call-out, and expresses it per downtime hour. When the numbers land here, the stressed input is the lever to work; the walkthrough above shows exactly how much each output recovers as it climbs back toward the baseline.

Results at a glance

  • Total downtime cost: 78,816 $ (headline result)
  • Downtime cost per unit: 2,189 $ / piece
  • Variable downtime cost: 66,816 $
  • Fixed downtime cost adder: 12,000 $

Run it with your numbers

  • To rerun this with your own numbers, open the live Downtime Cost calculator, set berth schedule recovery shortfall to your actual value, and adjust the remaining inputs to match your operation.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.