[TowerTalk] US Tower price increase

[Charles Gallo]

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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Charlie

> On Jan 2, 2017, at 5:56 PM, jimlux <jimlux at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>> 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.. )