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Re:No More Cheap Shipping for Chinese Sellers by bkor on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @06:45PM (#20815206)
> 3 weeks container shipping on a super container ship vs. even cheapest truck shipping ?

Container shipping is ridiculously cheap. See e.g. https://www.joc.com/maritime-news/capacity-cuts-keeping-asia.... Seems around 640 USD from Shanghai to North Europe as per above article/source. This for a 20 foot container. A lot of containers are 40 foot. US has loads of 45 foot containers.

If you'd go very far inland you wouldn't use a truck though; either a barge (inland vessel) or a train.

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Re:No More Cheap Shipping for Chinese Sellers by Scoundreller on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @06:54PM (#20815261)
Just FYI: EEE-class ships carry ~18000 20' equivalent containers. That's $11.5m per journey.

Presumably they make a profit on the journey to N. Europe, and take a loss on the return.

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