Landed Cost Calculator
Work out the true, all-in cost of an imported shipment — in dirhams, line by line, before you commit.
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The problem it solves
Most importers find out what a shipment really cost only after it has landed and all the invoices have arrived — freight in dollars, inland transport in the supplier's currency, the broker's bill, the bank's fees, demurrage nobody planned for. By then it is too late to renegotiate the supplier, requote the customer, or walk away from a bad deal.
The usual workaround is a spreadsheet that one person built and only that person understands. It mixes three or four currencies with hand-typed exchange rates, hides its formulas in cells, and quietly makes mistakes — applying duty to the wrong base, double-counting a charge, or treating an unknown currency as US dollars. When the spreadsheet says 20% margin and the real figure is 8%, the business finds out the expensive way.
What it does
You describe a shipment once and fill in the costs you know across ten clearly labelled groups. The calculator converts every foreign currency to AED, derives the costs it can compute for you, applies UAE rules, and returns one total with a complete audit trail.
- 01Describe the shipment. Enter the supplier, origin country, ports, Incoterm, quantity, weight and volume — the shipment header that every cost will be built on.
- 02Fill in the ten cost groups. Work through the sections in order: product purchase cost, origin inland and export, international freight, marine insurance, UAE destination port charges, UAE customs and regulatory, free-zone entry and handling, UAE inland transport, finance and banking, and miscellaneous and contingency. Enter what you know; the tool derives the rest.
- 03Set your FX rates. Enter the exchange rate for each currency in the shipment. If a charge uses a currency you did not give a rate for, the calculator tells you exactly which one rather than silently treating it as dollars.
- 04Apply UAE rules. Toggle Free Zone on and duty and VAT drop to zero automatically, the way UAE Free Zones actually work. Leave it off for a mainland import and the correct bases and rates are applied in the right order.
- 05Read the result. Total landed cost in AED, cost per unit, cost per kilogram, cost per cubic metre, and three health-check ratios — all updating live as you type, with the exact formula shown behind every number.
- Compare two scenarios side by side — two suppliers, routes, or Incoterms — to get a like-for-like total.
- Switch the whole view into another reporting currency without re-entering anything.
- Get warned automatically when an Incoterm like CIF already includes freight or insurance, so you do not double-count.
- Export to Excel or PDF, or share a calculation as a link — the full shipment is encoded in the URL.
Who it's for
- Importers and trading companies in the UAE who buy abroad and need their real cost before committing to a shipment.
- Procurement and sourcing teams comparing two suppliers, routes, or Incoterms and needing a like-for-like total.
- Finance teams who quote customers, set margins, and want every cost figure traceable to a formula.
- Free Zone and mainland businesses — the tool handles both and correctly zeroes duty and VAT for Free Zone shipments.
If you import goods and you are not 100% sure what a shipment actually costs you per unit, this tool is for you.
How you use it
Open the web app — no install. Fill in the shipment header and the costs you know across the ten sections, set your FX rates, and toggle Free Zone if it applies. Results update live on the right: total landed cost, per-unit/per-kg/per-cbm, the three ratios, and a full audit trail of every formula. Use compare mode for two scenarios, switch the reporting currency to review in USD, EUR or INR, then export or share by link.
Works with
Standalone web application. No external integrations required — FX rates are entered by the user; there is no live rate feed.
Active product. Runs in the browser with no install. The calculation engine is independently tested against the Ficus PAX International FZE reference cost workbook and produces identical line-item amounts and subtotals to two decimal places. UAE-first (Free Zone and mainland); the section structure follows international Incoterms.
Talk to us about Landed Cost Calculator.
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