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Did I read correctly that 53 foot shipping containers cost about $2000 before 2020? That seems a huge amount of steel.
by jjtheblunt 5y ago
Did I read correctly that 53 foot shipping containers cost about $2000 before 2020?
That seems a huge amount of steel.
- gostsamo 5y agoNo, the 20/40 feet containers were costing that. Amazon are creating a new category of containers to match their trucks.
- virtuallynathan 5y agoI’m not sure where he got the idea that these don’t exist… I see them all the time: https://containertech.com/container-sales/53ft-high-cube-storage-container https://containertech.com/container-sales/53ft-high-cube-sto...
- gostsamo 5y ago> Unlike 20ft and 40ft shipping containers | storage containers, 53ft shipping containers | storage containers are not utilized for international shipping.
- AlgorithmicTime 5y agoYep. I once had a whole bunch of stainless steel tanks fabbed in China, loaded into a container, and shipped to us on the East Coast. Shipping was ~2.5k for this giant container.
- jjtheblunt 5y agothat seems amazingly cheap. wow
- wongarsu 5y agoQuick googling would suggest that steel used be be ~$550/tonne pre-pandemic. An empty 20' container weights 2.3 tonnes, a 40' container 3.9 tonnes. So raw steel cost would be $1300 for a 20' container and $2100 for a 40' container (completely ignoring that I might be looking at the wrong grade of steel, or other ingredients like the antifouling paint).
- namlem 5y agoPrior to the pandemic, steel was $400-600 per ton.
- lots2learn 5y agoI believe they meant the cost to ship a container full of goods across the Pacific rather than the cost of buying an actual container. Source: My company imports