DennisLinkletter Posted August 19, 2021 Report Share Posted August 19, 2021 Over the last 35 years I've been shipping containers to the US from Indonesia, I've paid as little as $2,250 and as much as $6,400 for the sea freight. It costs another $1,800 to clear customs and have the container delivered and unloaded. Sea freight charges: Surabaya to Long Beach/Los Angeles May 2019 2,850 May 2020 4,200 May 2021 6,900 Mid 2021 9,400 June 1st 2021 11,900 August 15th - 31st $19,500!! Validity only two weeks will go up again... I've been eating it up to now.. but will be forced to add a "Sea Freight Surcharge" to all new orders. And will need to start shipping the grills in two crates so we can stack the smaller ones. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony b Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 Crazy/Insane/Madness!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnymnemonic Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 the surcharge is more than fair; I certainly don't want you to be "eating it" on my order (which hasn't shipped yet). Thank you for being transparent/public with the info. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jadeite Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 Not only the increase but the SPEED of increase too! Wow.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troble Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 Sorry to hear that Dennis. I think you know I work in roofing and solar manufacturing we’ve been seeing crazy material price increases for raw materials, electrical breakers, shipping costs, delays in the port all the stuff you’re talking about. This week I even contacted by green tea supplier who gets his product from China and I’ve been using from him since 2007. He’s out of stock and his product is stuck in port of Oakland for a month and he told me he has to raise prices when it lands….it’s everywhere 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stile88 Posted August 22, 2021 Report Share Posted August 22, 2021 That's crazy and insane the cost of everything keeps rising on everything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZooBeeQ Posted August 25, 2021 Report Share Posted August 25, 2021 Is it mostly because of how backed up everything is now and it will go back to normal, whatever that is sometime in the future? Its making that used KK in general looking really good!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jadeite Posted August 26, 2021 Report Share Posted August 26, 2021 On 8/25/2021 at 3:42 PM, ZooBeeQ said: Is it mostly because of how backed up everything is now and it will go back to normal, whatever that is sometime in the future? Its making that used KK in general looking really good!! While I am not Dennis.. I am in another industry which has a lot of shipping containers from overseas and funny enough on a conference I was on a few days ago the shipping container costs came up and we were informed of the new costs of shipping containers being almost exactly what Dennis said above. My supplies gave absolutely no indication or expectation that the prices will go down again any time soon. In fact we were told certain containers were actually being actively bid on and some companies were basically paying to bump other companies off ships at prices even higher than $25k. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZooBeeQ Posted August 26, 2021 Report Share Posted August 26, 2021 The new Normal. That's the trouble with normal, it always get worse ;-/ ( Thank You bruce c ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
