Thread: Shipping container costs.

Are you going to paddle or sail them?

Luke could give you an idea and tell you who to ask for a figure.

it's a long time since I had real data but costs used to be cents/nautical mile plus a "flag fall" either end. The "flag falls" were pretty expensive. and the cents/nautical mile rate is based on a 20' box. It really pays to completely fill a box.

Typically random boxes going to the US will travel via Asia, not direct. A once off shipment of 3 boxes would count as "random".

You will pay upfront to get the boxes to a shipper and then onto a ship -- the charge is typically know as FOB -- Free on Board.
Then you will pay the shipping company to sail the ship.
Then you will pay and pay to get the boxes off the ship, through customs inspection, onto a truck and/or train and then delivered to the final address.
And at the final address you will have a limited number of "free" hours before you start paying again because you haven't unpacked the containers quickly enough.

and if you are thinking of using containers you already own, figure in the cost to have 3 "in inspection" ones delivered to your place and the demurrage while you fill them. Most containers being sold for on-site storage are no longer "in inspection" for shipping purposes.