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It's not just Western shipping parts. You can buy cheap Indian parts, and have the very, same insane shipping costs as with "Western" parts. Ie a 2€ part from I
by rurban 2mo ago
It's not just Western shipping parts. You can buy cheap Indian parts, and have the very, same insane shipping costs as with "Western" parts. Ie a 2€ part from India will still cost 25€, whilst the 2€ part from China will cost 2-4€
- HexDecOctBin 2mo agoWhy is that? Is it simply a matter of scale (not enough shipping containers leaving from India to Trinidad and Tobago)?
- rurban 2mo agoIn case of the China -> Europe and US routes it's certainly that the air fright traffic is heavily optimized and subsidized by China. From India obviously not, so you have to pay normal shipping costs.
- HexDecOctBin 2mo agoSo primarily state intervention then?