Last I looked, $1500 for a two TEU from China to LA, on a no rush ship. I was
looking up shipping costs. They are happy to just cover expenses going back. It
is why buying a container here in the US is so cheap. Most just get cut up for
scrap when the get in bad shape, loaded into containers or bulk carriers, and
sent back
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73 de KG2V
Charlie
> On Jan 2, 2017, at 5:56 PM, jimlux <jimlux@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> On 1/2/17 12:58 PM, Charles Farr wrote:
>> I ponder where the steel used by US Towers, and others comes from. It
>> makes little sense to me that raw and scrap materials are shipped to
>> China and other countries, made into materials and then reshipped to the
>> US.
>
> But that is how it works. most hot rolled product I've seen recently comes
> from Korea or China. Shipping stuff from US to Asia and back is very
> inexpensive (particularly US to Asia). I think it's something like $1000/TEU
> (Twenty foot equivalent unit), and you can get a lot of tons of steel in a
> container. Another number I heard was $50-100/ton. that's about 5-10% of the
> cost of the steel.
> (http://www.oakleysteel.co.uk/steel-shipping-rates-antwerp-southeast-asia has
> an interesting graph, I think it's in Euro/tonne.. )
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