Shipping
Shipping, CBM, and what actually drives your landed cost
The machine price is the number everyone compares. It is not the number that decides what you pay. Draft copy.
Freight is priced on volume, not weight
Sea freight on a truck is charged on the space it takes up, measured in cubic metres — CBM. Every unit on this site publishes its CBM figure, because on the bigger machines it moves the landed cost more than the machine itself does. Almost nobody in this trade puts that number on a public page. Draft copy.
The 6×4 / 8×4 example, using our own numbers
32% more volume on every leg of the journey. The 8×4 carries more, so it can still be the right buy — just do not compare the two on machine price alone, because the freight difference will find you later. Which one is actually cheaper for your job →
What CBM looks like across the catalogue
The widest machines we ship take roughly twice the space of a tractor unit. If you are ordering more than one thing, this is the table that decides how they go on the vessel.
- SDLG Wide-Body Mining Truck125 m³calculated
- Tonly Wide-Body Mining Truck125 m³calculated
- Sinotruk HOWO 8×4 Dump Truck102 m³
- CYP9400L 800 mm Drop-Side Semi-Trailer99.5 m³calculated
- CYP9400L 60-Side Rollover Transport Semi-Trailer99.5 m³calculated
Marked calculated where the figure is derived from the printed dimensions rather than printed as a CBM in the catalogue. Every unit's CBM is on its card →
Where our stock ships from
Our stock sits in Hebei, in northern China. We load in Tangshan City, Hebei and ship from Tianjin Port.
There is an inland leg to the port before the sea leg, and it costs both money and days. Ask us for the total before you commit — and ask again if you are ordering in winter, because Hebei winters run below freezing for months and that moves preparation schedules. Draft copy.
We do not publish freight rates or transit times
Not because they are secret — because any figure printed on a website is out of date by the time you read it. Rates move weekly and they move by port. Tell us your destination port and we will get you a current figure for the sailing we can actually book.
Whose forwarder
You can use your own forwarder or ours, whichever gives you the better rate. It is entirely your choice. Draft copy.
Sometimes yours is cheaper — particularly if you already move volume into your port. We would rather you check than assume, and we would rather lose the freight margin than have you find out afterwards that you could have done better. FOB and CIF, and which to ask for →
Tell us your port
With a port and a machine, we can give you a landed cost instead of a machine price.