Mobile phones
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Originally Posted by GSPeter
I have read that air freight is cheaper and more efficient in the real world. Anyone have any comments on this?
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It's not exactly rocket science.
I read a report about the global economy a while ago and it related to the cost of transporting a batch of mobile phones for export - out of China to just about anywhere in the world.
How much would you charge?
9 UK pence per unit was the figure.
Can I send a moble phone from China to the UK for 9p? Of course not, if only because I don't fill an ISO container, 20ft or 40ft.
Ever since the invention of the ISO container, sea-based shipping has been transformed and become an industrialised, relatively high-tech process.
Incidentally, because of under "real" investment in the USA there is not currently a single port there which can receive the latest, largest container ships; that's from another business report that I read a while ago.
If you put a few bikes into a container how much volume of that container is in use, based on the standard height of a container (I think the latter is 8 ft)?
A shipper could always bulk it out with a few boxes of mobile phones.
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Dave
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